Date: 25-Jun-2008 From: Rachel Markowitz <Rachel.Markowitztaylorandfrancis.com> Subject: Heritage Language Education: Brinton, Kagan, Baukus (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Heritage Language Education
Subtitle: A New Field Emerging
Published: 2008
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Editor: Donna Brinton
Editor: Olga Kagan
Editor: Susan Baukus
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415995038 Pages: 384 Price: U.S. $ 125.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415995887 Pages: 384 Price: U.S. $ 44.95
Abstract:
This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on teaching heritage language learners. Contributors from theoretical and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, educational policy, and pedagogy specialists explore policy and societal issues, present linguistic case studies, and discuss curricular issues, offering both research and hands-on innovation.
- The term "heritage language speaker" refers to an individual exposed to a language spoken at home but who is educated primarily in English.
Research and curriculum design in heritage language education is just beginning. Heritage language pedagogy, including research associated with the attrition, maintenance, and growth of heritage language proficiency, is rapidly becoming a field in its own right within foreign language education. This book fills a current gap in both theory and pedagogy in this emerging field. It is a significant contribution to the goals of formulating theory, developing informed classroom practices, and creating enlightened programs for students who bring home-language knowledge into the classroom.
Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging is dedicated to Professor Russell Campbell (1927-2003), who was instrumental in advocating for the creation of the field of heritage language education.
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