35.1703, Confs: DGfS 2025 Workshop - Heritage Speakers Learning Languages: Looking Beyond the Societal Language

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Subject: 35.1703, Confs: DGfS 2025 Workshop - Heritage Speakers Learning Languages: Looking Beyond the Societal Language

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Date: 06-Jun-2024
From: Kateryna Iefremenko [iefremenko at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: DGfS 2025 Workshop - Heritage Speakers Learning Languages: Looking Beyond the Societal Language


DGfS 2025 Workshop - Heritage Speakers Learning Languages: Looking
Beyond the Societal Language

Date: 04-Mar-2025 - 07-Mar-2025
Location: Mainz, Germany
Contact: Kateryna Iefremenko
Contact Email: fb2heritage at leibniz-zas.de

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics

Meeting Description:

This workshop focuses on heritage language speakers/signers (HS) as
language learners, emphasizing the linguistic diversity, change and
variation within and beyond the language classroom.

A long-standing debate in the field of L3/Ln acquisition regards the
relative influence of each of the previously acquired languages
(Rothman et al. 2019). By explicitly investigating the heritage
language (HL) context, we can consider the effects of language
dominance and acquisition context on language learning outcomes.
Furthermore, we are interested in the ways in which learning a foreign
language can affect existing linguistic skills and general cognitive
processes in the HS. Additionally, when formally studying their HL, HS
pose a unique pedagogical challenge that distinguishes them from L2
learners (Polinsky 2015). Their language competencies set them apart:
HS may have strong listening skills, a wider vocabulary, and greater
cultural insights, while struggling more with reading and writing.
Thus, HL courses need to adapt their curricula and assessments
accordingly, in order to account for the variation among the HL
learners.

We invite papers from all linguistic subfields and methodological and
theoretical backgrounds.  In particular, we welcome studies related to
any of the following topics:

  * Acquisition of third or further languages (L3, Ln) by heritage
speakers
  * Heritage speakers’ re-acquisition (or strengthening) of their HL
in
    a classroom setting
  * Sociolinguistic and Cultural Dimensions of Heritage Language
Learning
  * The influence of HL education and other background factors
    (cognitive, linguistic, demographic) on language outcomes

All the best,
Clara Fridman (Bar-Ilan University)
Onur Özsoy (Leibniz-ZAS)
Kateryna Iefremenko (Leibniz-ZAS, University of Potsdam)


References
Polinsky, Maria. 2015. Heritage languages and their speakers: State of
the field, challenges, perspectives for future work, and
methodologies. /Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachwissenschaft 26/. 7-27.

Rothman, Jason, Jorge González Alonso & Eloi Puig-Mayenco. 2019.
/Third language acquisition and linguistic transfer/ (Vol. 163).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

We are now accepting abstracts for the workshop “Heritage speakers
learning languages: Looking beyond the societal language” as part of
the 47th annual conference of the German Linguistics Association (DGfS
Jahrestagung) in Mainz, Germany, on March 4-7, 2025.

We invite 1 page abstracts (excl. references) for 20 min presentations
(incl. 10 min discussion). Please email abstracts as a PDF to
fb2heritage at leibniz-zas.de <mailto:fb2heritage at leibniz-zas.de> by
August 30, 2024.



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