Through the learners' eyes: Reconceptualizing the heritage and non-heritage learner of the less commonly taught languages

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 554-563

  Lee, Jin Sook ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heritage language learner; LCTL (less commonly taught language); Learner perspectives; Non heritage language learner; Postsecondary foreign language instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846368437     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2005.tb02522.x     Document Type: Article

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