33.2274, FYI: Supporting Heritage Language Acquisition When it Matters Most

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2274. Thu Jul 14 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2274, FYI: Supporting Heritage Language Acquisition When it Matters Most

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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 23:59:21
From: Maria J Arche [m.j.arche at greenwich.ac.uk]
Subject: Supporting Heritage Language Acquisition When it Matters Most

 
Closing Plenary to the International Summer School in Multilingualism,
University of Greenwich, Southampton and PennState
Open Lecture: Professor Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois
Friday 15 July 2022, 4PM BST
Join Zoom Meeting here: https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/67733667985

Title: Supporting Heritage Language Acquisition When it Matters Most

Abstract
Heritage language acquisition is concerned with the developmental stages and
outcome of learning a minority language as a first but secondary language in a
bilingual context from childhood to adulthood, as well as the wax and wane of
the heritage language in response to input factors. Most studies of heritage
languages focus on adults, who are unbalanced bilinguals with stronger command
of the majority language than of the heritage language, because the heritage
language exhibits systematic differences in vocabulary, morphological
knowledge and in certain discourse-pragmatic interfaces compared to baseline
speakers. In this talk, I focus on recent studies of Spanish and other
languages in school-age heritage speakers, because it is during late childhood
and adolescence that input decreases substantially with effects in the still
developing linguistic system. I will show that many of the apparent
grammatical differences found in young adult heritage speakers can be traced
back to protracted development in childhood. Two important factors that can be
observed with this age group are the roles of parental input in heritage
language development and of academic support of the heritage language. The
emerging conclusions from recent studies are that 1) there is little
relationship between the language of the parents and the patterns that emerge
in the heritage language children, and 2) academic support of the heritage
language during the entire school-age period is critical to maintain and
develop the language to achieve fluent bilingualism.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax





 



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