LINGUIST List 13.1565

Fri May 31 2002

Confs: Applied Ling/Non-English Langs in America

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. McGinnis, Scott, Second National Conference on Heritage Languages in America

October 18-20, 2002
HERITAGE LANGUAGES CONFERENCE
REGISTER NOW!!

Pre-register for the Second National Conference on Heritage Languages in
America, to be held in Tysons Corner, VA (a suburb of Washington, D.C).

Be sure to pre-register by July 19 for the best rate!

To request a pre-registration brochure (with a poster that you can
display),
visit:
http://www.cal.org/heritage/request.asp

To register and read more about the conference, visit:
http://www.cal.org/heritage/conferences/conf2002.html


This Second National Conference will seek to further the aims of the
Heritage Languages Initiative, a national effort to develop the
non-English language resources that exist in our communities. It will
bring together heritage language community and school leaders,
representatives from pre-K-12 schools and colleges and universities,
world-renowned researchers, and federal and state policymakers. The
goals of the Heritage Languages Initiative and this conference are to
continue to make manifest the personal, economic, and social benefits to
our nation of preserving and developing the languages spoken by those
living in this country; to build a national dialogue on this topic; and
to develop an action agenda for the next several years.