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30 - Community-Organized Heritage Language Programs

from Part IV - Heritage Language Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2021

By
Jin Sook Lee  and
Huay Chen-Wu
Edited by
Silvina Montrul  and
Maria Polinsky
Silvina Montrul
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Maria Polinsky
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
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Summary

This chapter presents an overview of the different models of community-organized heritage language programs ranging from Saturday/Sunday Schools and language camps to e-learning platforms that serve diasporic post-immigration communities. Using various examples of currently existing programs from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, this review identifies characteristics of community-organized heritage language programs that set them apart from other language education programs such as foreign language courses for heritage language speakers and maintenance bilingual programs that exist within the infrastructure of mainstream schooling. It discusses the current state of knowledge that surrounds the functions and roles of community-organized heritage language programs as well as some commonly encountered institutional and operational challenges in such programs. It concludes with a discussion of current work that is being done to support, connect, and promote the interests of community-organized heritage language programs in order to increase their alignment and visibility so that they may more effectively accomplish the goals of heritage language education within and across nations.

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heritage language programscommunity organized programsSaturday Schoolsafter school programsweekend schoolsmother tongue schoolssupplementary schools
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The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics , pp. 777 - 802
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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