[HERITAGE-LIST] Request for assistance: Survey of heritage language learners

[Scott G. McGINNIS]

Dear colleagues:

Through a Title VI grant, the National Heritage Language Resource Center NHLRC) is conducting a national survey of heritage language learners. This survey, the first of its kind, aims to document the linguistic habits, goals, and attitudes, of college-level heritage language students from all languages. The information obtained will inform the 
design of curricula, materials, and methodologies. A report on the 1150 responses collected during the 06-07 academic year is now available at 
http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/nhlrc/.

I am contacting you to request your assistance with this important project. You can help in two ways, one, by asking your heritage language students to fill out the survey; and two, by disseminating information about this survey among your colleagues who teach such students. If at all possible, students should fill out the survey during class in a computer lab under the supervision of an instructor. This 
should take no more than 15-20 minutes. The directions to the survey are as follows:

Instruct your students to go to
http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/nhlrc/

In the left-hand column, click on "For the Heritage Language Learner Survey, click here".  When you get to the Survey page, it asks for a password.  THE PASSWORD is <hlsurvey> It's not case sensitive.

Please feel free to contact me at Carreira at csulb.edu or Olga Kagan at okagan at ucla.edu, if you have any questions.

I thank you in advance for helping to make this survey a success.

Sincerely,

Maria M. Carreira, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
California State University, Long Beach