Inquiry: Suggestions for research methodology on college Chinese HL learners

[Scott G. McGINNIS]

DO NOT USE "REPLY" TO RESPOND THIS MESSAGE! Responses should 
be send directly to its originator, Xiaorong Li, at 
xlm at andrew.cmu.edu

I am Xiaorong Li and I am a Ph.D. student of Second Language 
Acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University. I am very 
interested in heritage language learners and I am now 
working on my dissertation under Dr. Dick Tucker's 
supervision.

What I am interested in doing for my dissertation is to 
identify the special needs of heritage learners in improving 
their grammatical competence and what activities would be 
useful during the revision process of compositional writing.
I would be very grateful if you could provide me some 
insights on how I can pursue this topic and what methodology 
I should use to pursue this topic.

I am also writing to ask if you have data on community based 
language schools, college level heritage Chinese programs or 
the overall language program for heritage learners in the 
U.S. I am also wondering if you could give me some guidance 
on how I can collect data on the existing language programs 
designed for heritage learners in the U.S.

Thank you in advance and I look forward to your response.

Sincerely, 
Xiaorong