Heritage language use and maintenance in multilingual communities
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Maria Juan-Garau
Maria Juan-Garau is Associate Professor in English Applied Linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. Her research has focused on bilingualism, multilingualism and second/foreign language acquisition. She is currently interested in the influence of learning context on the acquisition of English as an additional language, with special attention to content-and-language-integrated learning and study abroad settings.
Abstract
Over the last decades, the amount of research on heritage language (HL) use and maintenance has increased exponentially, and a picture is beginning to emerge of the developmental patterns that are seen to take place and of the main factors that impinge on HL use and maintenance in increasingly multilingual settings. The present paper aims at providing a short account of relevant findings in this area and situating the studies in this special issue against that background. More specifically, we will consider the difficulties associated with HL maintenance at home, the impact of the different linguistic and cultural experiences HL learners go through on their identity, cross-linguistic influence between HLs and other languages present in the community, and issues related to HL education, particularly teacher language competencies.
About the author
Maria Juan-Garau is Associate Professor in English Applied Linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. Her research has focused on bilingualism, multilingualism and second/foreign language acquisition. She is currently interested in the influence of learning context on the acquisition of English as an additional language, with special attention to content-and-language-integrated learning and study abroad settings.
©2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Munich/Boston
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- Frontmatter
- Maintaining Language and Developing Multilingualism
- Intergenerational heritage language practices: A case study of Spanish-speaking families in Britain
- Changing argument structure in (heritage) Pennsylvania German
- Convergent developments in Dutch Turkish word order – A comparative study using ‘elicited production’ and ‘judgment’ data: Converging evidence?
- Maintained and acquired heritage Spanish in the Netherlands: The case of dative constructions
- Language competencies of future teachers – Design and results of an empirical study
- Heritage language use and maintenance in multilingual communities
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Maintaining Language and Developing Multilingualism
- Intergenerational heritage language practices: A case study of Spanish-speaking families in Britain
- Changing argument structure in (heritage) Pennsylvania German
- Convergent developments in Dutch Turkish word order – A comparative study using ‘elicited production’ and ‘judgment’ data: Converging evidence?
- Maintained and acquired heritage Spanish in the Netherlands: The case of dative constructions
- Language competencies of future teachers – Design and results of an empirical study
- Heritage language use and maintenance in multilingual communities
