Effects of Community Service-Learning on Heritage Language Learners' Attitudes Toward Their Language and Culture

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 71-83

  Pascual y Cabo, Diego ^a   Prada, Josh ^a   Lowther Pereira, Kelly ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; service learning; Spanish as a heritage language

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012863149     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/flan.12245     Document Type: Article

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