Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism

Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key research questions, experimental designs, research techniques, and instruments used to investigate heritage languages.

Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key research questions, experimental designs, research techniques, and instruments used to investigate heritage languages.

This ambitious volume covers a variety of linguistic, affective, social, and educational perspectives, all related to heritage language research. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview of the topic under discussion with examples from a variety of heritage languages, is written in a highly accessible way featuring activities, and leads to further research literature. Readers are guided through theoretical background, research justification, creation, use, and the possible outcomes of key research methods.

This exciting text is an invaluable resource for graduate as well as advanced undergraduate students in second language acquisition, language learning, and heritage languages.

Autorentext

Amelia Tseng is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Spanish at American University, USA, where she directs the Linguistics Program. She serves on the editorial board of Revista Bilingüe/Bilingual Review.

Charles B. Chang is Professor of Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He serves as Associate Editor for Second Language Research and is on the editorial board of the Korean Journal of Linguistics.

Tania Leal is Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA. She is Associate Editor for Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism and contributes to the editorial board of Second Language Research.

Jin Sook Lee is Professor of Education and an Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She serves on numerous editorial boards including the International Multilingual Research Journal and Bilingual Research Journal.

Belem G. López* is a Social Scientist in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Program at the National Weather Service and was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

*Dr. López contributed to this volume in her personal capacity. The views expressed are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Program, Office of Science and Technology Integration, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Commerce, or the United States government.

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Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key research questions, experimental designs, research techniques, and instruments used to investigate heritage languages.

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Acknowledgements

1 Introduction to Heritage Language Research and Key Theoretical Constructs

2 Online Methods for Examining Heritage Speaker Morphosyntax

3 Offline Methods for Examining Heritage Speaker Morphosyntax

4 Examining Heritage Language Speech Production

5 Examining Heritage Language Speech Perception

6 Statistical Considerations in the Study of Heritage Bilingual Speakers

7 Language Brokers and Heritage Language Speakers

8 Heritage Language Maintenance in Families and Communities

9 Heritage Language Education

10 Heritage Language Identity

11 Language Attitudes and Ideology

12 Conclusion

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