Heritage Education, Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Native Language Instruction, Native Speakers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Skill Development
This digest outlines the reasons for and challenges of developing the language skills of heritage language speakers and describes one effort to carry this out, the Heritage Languages Initiative. Specific sections address the following: developing language skills of U.S. residents; the range of language proficiencies of heritage language speakers; the fragility of heritage languages; limitations of current language programs; deficits in infrastructure; and the formation of the Heritage Languages Initiative. ( W L ).
Document Citations
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Chicago
Education Resource Information Center, Department of Education.
"ED464515 - Tapping a National Resource: Heritage Languages in the United States. ERIC Digest". Government.
U.S. Department of Education,
May 1, 2002.
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/ERIC-ED464515
APA
Education Resource Information Center, Department of Education.
(2002, May 1).
ED464515 - Tapping a National Resource: Heritage Languages in the United States. ERIC Digest.
[Government].
U.S. Department of Education.
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/ERIC-ED464515
MLA
Education Resource Information Center, Department of Education.
ED464515 - Tapping a National Resource: Heritage Languages in the United States. ERIC Digest.
U.S. Department of Education,
(1 May 2002),
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/ERIC-ED464515
Bluebook
Education Resource Information Center, Department of Education, Tapping a National Resource: Heritage Languages in the United States. ERIC Digest, GovInfo, (May 1, 2002),
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/ERIC-ED464515
