Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging

Table of Contents

Preface

ix

An Introduction

1

Who Are Our Heritage Language Learners? Identity and Biliteracy in Heritage Language Education in the United States
NANCY H. HORNBERGER AND SHUHAN C. WANG

3

Part I
Heritage Speakers: Demographics, Policy, and Identity

2

Learning Other Languages: The Case for Promoting Bilingualism within our Educational System
G. RICHARD TUCKER

39

3

Policy Activity for Heritage Languages: Connections with Representation and Citizenship
JOSEPH LO BIANCO

53

4

Heritage Language Education in Canada
PATRICIA A. DUFF

71

5

Chinese "Dialect" Speakers as Heritage Language Learners: A Case Study
TERRENCE G. WILEY

91

6

Heritage Languages and Ideologies of Language: Unexamined Challenges
GUADALUPE VALDÉS, SONIA V. GONZÁLEZ,
DANIA LÓPEZ GARCÍa, AND PATRICIO MÁQUEZ

107

7

The Relevance of Bilingual Proficiency in U.S. Corporate Settings
MARY MCGROARTY AND ALFREDO URZÚA

131

Part II
Heritage Speaker Profiles and Needs Analysis

8

Heritage Language Narratives
MARIA POLINKSY

149

9

Prior Language-Learning Experience and Variation in the Linguistic Profiles of Advanced English-Speaking Learners of Japanese
KAZUE KANNO, TOMOMI HASEGAWA, KEIKO IKEDA, YASUKO ITO, AND MICHAEL H. LONG

165

10

Academic Writing Proficiency of Russian Heritage Speakers: A Comparative Study
DEBRA FRIEDMAN AND OLGA KAGAN

181

11

Stigmatized Spanish Inside the Classroom and Out: A Model of Language Teaching to Heritage Speakers
CLAUDIA PARODI

199

12

A Profile of Japanese Heritage Learners and Individualized Curriculum
MASAKO O. DOUGLAS

215

Part III
Program Development and Evaluation

13

From Mirror to Compass: The Chinese Heritage Language Education Sector in the United States
SCOTT MCGINNIS

229

14

Spanish for Native Speakers Education: The State of the Field
JOY KREEFT PEYTON

243

15

School-Based Programs for Heritage Language Learners: Two-Way Immersion
DONNA CHRISTIAN

257

16

The Korean/English Dual Language Program in the Los Angeles Unified School District
SUNG-OCK S. SOHN AND CRAIG C. MERRILL

269

17

Enhancing Academic Language Proficiency in a Spanish Immersion Classroom
ANDREW D. COHEN AND TANIA GÓMEZ

289

18

"Oh, I Get It Now!" From Production to Comprehension in Second Language Learning
MERRILL SWAIN AND SHARON LAPKIN

301

19

Locating and Utilizing Heritage Language Resources in the Community: An Asset-Based Approach to Program Design and Evaluation
BRIAN K. LYNCH

321

In Conclusion

20

Salvaging Heritage Languages
TERRY KIT-FONG AU

337

About the Editors and Contributors

353

Index

363