Heritage Language Research Institutes

Seventh NHLRC Research Institute
Summer 2013 (University of Illinois at Chicago)
June 17 - 21, 2013

Sixth NHLRC Research Institute
Summer 2012 (University of California, Los Angeles)
June 18 - 22, 2012

Fifth NHLRC Research Institute
Summer 2011 (University of California, Los Angeles)
June 26 - July 1, 2011

Fourth NHLRC Research Institute
Summer 2010 (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
June 21–25, 2010

Third NHLRC Research Institute
Summer 2009 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
June 22–26, 2009

Second NHLRC Research Institute
Summer 2008 (Harvard University)
June 23–27, 2008

First NHLRC Research Institute
Summer 2007 (University of California, Davis)
July 29–August 2, 2007

Project Leader: Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)

A cornerstone project for the NHLRC is an annual week-long research institute which has been held each summer since 2007. The institutes aim to support a principal NHLRC mission: the development of a research base for heritage language education and connect research findings with pedagogical approaches. The institutes bring together researchers, language educators, and graduate students to create connections between theory and practice and contribute to a new subfield of applied linguistics and heritage language education and to set the next stage of a research agenda.