Addendum RE: Inquiry: Model survey or survey results for heritage language communities

[Scott McGinnis]

A quick follow-up on this: The "executive summary" that Kim cites is not
exclusively an NFLC report. It came from out of the "Heritage Language
Research Priorities Conference" held at UCLA in September of 2000, with
participatants from and support by UCLA, CAL, Cal State Long Beach, and
Arizona State University, as well as NFLC.

At one point, a limited number of hard copies were still available through
CAL, but I suspect those are long gone -- if anyone from CAL can pipe in RE:
availability, we'd all be grateful, I'm sure. Otherwise, try contacting the
Language Resource Program at UCLA, website www.isop.ucla.edu/lrp, e-mail
lrp at humnet.ucla.edu.

Best to all,
Scott

Scott McGinnis
Executive Director
National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages

Associate, Less Commonly Taught Languages
National Foreign Language Center
7100 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 300
College Park, MD  20740

voice:  301-403-1750, x18
fax:    301-403-1754
e-mail: smcginnis at nflc.org (attachments) OR
        sm167 at umail.umd.edu
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        www.nflc.org


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Subject: Inquiry: Model survey or survey results for heritage language
communities


The following originally posted to BILING, the bilingual ed list, and
forwarded for our attention by Nariyo Kono of the University of Arizona --
with thanks to Nariyo!

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Greetings,

    The NFLC's executive summary of the Heritage Language Research
Priorities conference report suggests on page 7 that surveys be used in
heritage language communities "to assess needs, resources, problems and
attitudes; to establish current and potential heritage language use..."
and other relevant data.

    Does anyone have such a survey they're willing to share, or know of
published surveys?  We are looking to begin this kind of work in
Spanish-speaking communities in Chicago.

    It would be great if we could post community surveys to a public
website (if it hasn't been done already).

    Thanks,

Kim Potowski
Program Director, Heritage Language Teacher Corps
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Spanish, French, Italian & Portuguese
601 S. Morgan St., MC-315
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone (312) 996-4582  Fax (312) 413-1044

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