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| Title | Local US Languages and How to Teach Them |
| Body | From http://nclrc.org/about_teaching/topics/learner_diversity.html Local US Languages and How to Teach Them by Kevin Matthews, Senior Writer at the UCLA International Institute (Reprinted from the UCLA International Institute News Publications) Schools and colleges don't always ask who their students are when deciding which languages to teach and how to design curricula. Seeking to remedy that, UCLA's National Heritage Language Resource Center hosts a week-long training workshop for language instructors and K-12 administrators from across the country. The federally funded STARTALK initiative, which focuses on languages seen as critical to national security, cosponsored the UCLA workshop with the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC), which is based on campus and directed by UCLA Professor Olga Kagan. CSU Long Beach Professor Maria Carreira acted as lead instructor. At the opening session, Kagan distinguished between two broad strategies to apply to instruction in a language: a "foreign language" approach for people never exposed to the language, or a "heritage language" approach for students who arrive at school with at least some listening skills and cultural knowledge learned at home. "There is this geography of heritage language learning that wouldn't apply to foreign languages," Kagan explained. Without looking closely at demographic data for a given locale, she says, it is simply not obvious what heritage languages might be taught there. Read the full article at http://nclrc.org/about_teaching/heritage_learners.html |
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| Inputdate | 2010-10-20 10:31:13 |
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