The Results of the National Heritage Language Survey: Implications for Teaching, Curriculum Design, and Professional Development

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-64

  Carreira, Maria ^a   Kagan, Olga ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based curriculum; Heritage language (HL); Heritage language attitudes; Heritage language learners (HLL); Motivations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951831593     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2010.01118.x     Document Type: Article

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