Full Description
This volume covers the multidimensional and international field of Heritage Language Education, including concepts, practices, and the correlation between culture and language from the perspectives of pedagogy and research. Heritage Language Learning is a new dimension in both the linguistic and pedagogic sciences, and is linked to processes of identity negotiation and cultural inheritance. It is a distinct pedagogical and curricular domain that is not exhausted within the domains of bilingualism and second or foreign language education. A heritage language is not a second or foreign language, it is the vehicle whereby cultural memory is transmitted over time, across distances, communities, and generations. Heritage languages play an important role ensuring the balance between coherence and pluralism in contemporary societies that have come to realize that diversity is an advantage for social, cultural, and economic reasons.The volume includes topics like First Nation indigenous languages, languages in diaspora, immigrant and minority languages, and contributions from North, central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. It addresses the social, linguistic, and cultural issues in educational contexts in a new way by taking up questions of globalization, difference, community, identity, democracy, ethics, politics, technology, language rights and cultural policies through the evolving field of Heritage Language Education.
Contents
Heritage and LanguageFormal Linguistic Approaches to Heritage Language Acquisition Be Linked to Heritage Language Pedagogies?.- Plurilingualism: Vision, Conceptualization, and Practices.- Developing Metacognition and Interculturality in Heritage Language Learners.- Heritage Language Speakers in the University Classroom, Doing Research.- Heritage Language Learners in Mixed University Classes: Language Skills, Attitudes, and Implications for Curriculum Development.- The Multiplicity Framework: Potential Applications for Heritage Language Education and Pedagogy.- Encouraging the Use and Activation of Heritage Languages in the Broader Educational System.- Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Modeling Teachers' Professional Learning to Advance Plurilingualism.- Professional Development of Heritage Language Instructors: Profiles, Needs, and Course Evaluation.- Language Teachers' Ideologies in a Complementary Greek School in Montreal: Heteroglossia and Teaching.- A Language Contact Perspective on Heritage Languages in the Classroom.- Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Language Education Through Plurilingualism: Linking the Theory into Practice.- Heritage Language Development in Interlingual Families
