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Leveraging everyday language experiences in immigrant communities for heritage language maintenance
by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana (UCLA School of Information and Education)In this talk I suggest how heritage language educators can learn about the everyday language experiences of youth in immigrant communities and then leverage them for the support of heritage languages. I focus in particular on the skills acquired from brokering language (translating/interpreting) for others, and in shifting language appropriately for different audiences, contexts, purposes and relationships.