Heritage language education in the United States: A need to reconceptualize and restructure

Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties

Volumn 9781589014169, Issue , 2008, Pages 173-186

  Peyton, Joy Kreeft ^a   Carreira, Maria ^b   Wang, Shuhan ^c   Wiley, Terrence G ^d  

^a CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Delaware Department of Education   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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