Heritage Languages Conference

[ronkinm at georgetown.edu]

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HERITAGE LANGUAGES IN AMERICA
SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE
October 18-20, 2002 ** PRE-REGISTER NOW! **

This conference is open to everyone who is interested contributing
to a growing national effort to develop the valuable and largely
neglected non-English language resources that already exist in our
communities. This will be a valuable working and networking
experience for heritage language community program leaders, pre-K-12
teachers and administrators, college and university faculty
and administrators, researchers, and federal and state policymakers.

National Public Radio's CLAUDIO SANCHEZ will be this year's keynote
speaker, sharing from personal and professional experience
insights he has gained into the way people use and view languages.

The conference is sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics, the
National Foreign Language Center, and the University of
Maryland, College Park. It will be held in Tysons Corner, VA (outside of
Washington, DC).

For more information or to register online, visit:
http://www.cal.org/heritage/conferences/2002/
or
call 202-362-0700 ext. 245

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

MEMBERS OF HERITAGE LANGUAGES COMMUNITIES
You are needed to lead our efforts--telling public and private school
representatives your concerns and sharing your successes with
heritage language development.

REPRESENTATIVES OF STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES
If you have a need for language expertise in your workforce, come and
help shape the plans of educators for developing language
abilities of students in elementary, secondary, and university programs.

TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
Learn about new research and practices to develop high-level language
proficiency of heritage language speakers both in this
country and overseas.

FUNDERS OF LANGUAGE-RELATED PROJECTS
Learn about the types of projects that heritage community members and
researchers feel need the most immediate support.

RESEARCHERS
Learn about the extensive research underway on heritage language
maintenance and development and the research agenda being
developed so that your own and your students' research can fit into and
be supported by that agenda.

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