Language Program Vitality In The United States

Author : Emily Heidrich Uebel,Felix A. Kronenberg,Scott Sterling
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031436543

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Language Program Vitality in the United States by Emily Heidrich Uebel,Felix A. Kronenberg,Scott Sterling Pdf

The perception of a permanent enrollment crisis in US postsecondary foreign language education has shaped our profession’s image for an entire generation of educators. Over the past 30 years, this crisis rarely invited self-examination or inspired creativity. Instead, it was routinely attributed to external factors: shrinking budgets, unsympathetic administrators, disengaged students. This volume is refreshingly optimistic: After providing a nuanced picture of the complex enrollment situation and focusing on perceptions of language education among undergraduate students, the volume features an inspiring panorama of successful models that revitalized language programs at a wide range of institutions. The diversity of approaches to post-secondary language education in the United States featured in this volume highlights that there are no simple “one size fits all” solutions. To be transformational, initiatives need to be intimately calibrated to the evolving needs and desires of our institutions’ most important stakeholder: the student. Per Urlaub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA

Author : Terrence G. Wiley,Joy Kreeft Peyton,Donna Christian,Sarah Catherine K. Moore,Na Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136332494

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Handbook of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages in the United States by Terrence G. Wiley,Joy Kreeft Peyton,Donna Christian,Sarah Catherine K. Moore,Na Liu Pdf

Co-published by the Center for Applied Linguistics Timely and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art overview of major issues related to heritage, community, and Native American languages in the United States, based on the work of noted authorities, draws from a variety of perspectives—the speakers; use of the languages in the home, community, and wider society; patterns of acquisition, retention, loss, and revitalization of the languages; and specific education efforts devoted to developing stronger connections with and proficiency in them. Contributions on language use, programs and instruction, and policy focus on issues that are applicable to many heritage language contexts. Offering a foundational perspective for serious students of heritage, community, and Native American languages as they are learned in the classroom, transmitted across generations in families, and used in communities, the volume provides background on the history and current status of many languages in the linguistic mosaic of U.S. society and stresses the importance of drawing on these languages as societal, community, and individual resources, while also noting their strategic importance within the context of globalization.

Author : Olga E. Kagan,Maria M. Carreira,Claire Hitchens Chik
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317541530

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The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education by Olga E. Kagan,Maria M. Carreira,Claire Hitchens Chik Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education provides the rapidly growing and globalizing field of heritage language (HL) education with a cohesive overview of HL programs and practices relating to language maintenance and development, setting the stage for future work in the field. Driving this effort is the belief that if research and pedagogical advances in the HL field are to have the greatest impact, HL programs need to become firmly rooted in educational systems. Against a background of cultural and linguistic diversity that characterizes the twenty-first century, the volume outlines key issues in the design and implementation of HL programs across a range of educational sectors, institutional settings, sociolinguistic conditions, and geographical locations, specifically: North and Latin America, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Cambodia. All levels of schooling are included as the teaching of the following languages are discussed: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Eastern and Western), Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, French, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Pasifika languages, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish. These discussions contribute to the development and establishment of HL instructional paradigms through the experiences of “actors on the ground” as they respond to local conditions, instantiate current research and pedagogical findings, and seek solutions that are workable from an organizational standpoint. The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education is an ideal resource for researchers and graduate students interested in heritage language education at home or abroad.

Author : Felix A. Kronenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350287167

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Physical Language Learning Spaces in the Digital Age by Felix A. Kronenberg Pdf

How do we intentionally design physical environments for language learning and teaching? How can we build spaces that are inclusive, accessible, safe and equitable? While the Covid-19 pandemic has advanced notions of online education, it has also revealed the benefits and affordances of human-to-human interaction in physical learning spaces. This book explores the design of physical spaces intended for language learning specifically. From residential learning spaces to active classrooms, from social and experiential spaces to zoom rooms and language centers, from mobile community-based learning to hybrid makerspaces, language learners and educators have more choices than ever regarding their possible learning environments. Changing pedagogies and new technologies provide ever more alternatives to the normalized technology of the classroom. With a focus on creating new awareness of the affordances and benefits of physical spaces as active agents in the language learning and teaching processes, this book takes a practical approach to introduce readers without any prior knowledge of design or architecture to the topic. As language learning spaces need to consider stakeholders from diverse cultures, Felix Kronenberg provides examples from language centers around the world, including Asia, Europe and the United States. Readers will learn how to conceptualize and create supportive, resilient, flexible, inclusive, accessible, affordable, sustainable, and safe physical learning spaces. The book is an interdisciplinary introduction to this emerging field, drawing from research in disciplines such as architecture, learning spaces design, second language acquisition, pedagogy, history, and sociology.

Author : Sara M. Beaudrie,Sergio Loza
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000863741

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Heritage Language Program Direction by Sara M. Beaudrie,Sergio Loza Pdf

This innovative text presents an introduction to different facets of building and leading language education programs at the university level to meet the needs of students who are minority speakers of a heritage language (HL) – also known as community or home languages. Providing a unique synthesis of theory and empirical research, Sara Beaudrie and Sergio Loza authoritatively illustrate and guide the reader through the main issues that program directors face from the early stage of program conceptualization and creation through later stages of program management and evaluation. The book keys in on the diverse considerations and skills involved in this leadership work – including advocacy and fund-raising, placement, curriculum development and assessment, teacher preparation and student advocacy – and offers an array of practical advice and pedagogical features. This is an invaluable resource for advanced students and scholars of applied linguistics and education, as well as future and current language program administrators in institutions of higher education, for understanding the benefits of specialized HL courses, for blazing a trail in future research in this domain, and for forging a path to solidified institutional recognition and support for HL education.

Author : Teresa L. McCarty
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847698650

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Language Planning and Policy in Native America by Teresa L. McCarty Pdf

Comprehensive in scope and rich in detail, this book explores language planning, language education, and language policy for diverse Native American peoples across time, space, and place. Based on long-term collaborative and ethnographic work with Native American communities and schools, the book examines the imposition of colonial language policies against the fluorescence of contemporary community-driven efforts to revitalize threatened mother tongues. Here, readers will meet those who are on the frontlines of Native American language revitalization every day. As their efforts show, even languages whose last native speaker is gone can be reclaimed through family-, community-, and school-based language planning. Offering a critical-theory view of language policy, and emphasizing Indigenous sovereignties and the perspectives of revitalizers themselves, the book shows how language regenesis is undertaken in social practice, the role of youth in language reclamation, the challenges posed by dominant language policies, and the prospects for Indigenous language and culture continuance current revitalization efforts hold.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210019487220

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United States Statutes at Large by United States Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313397653

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American Indians at Risk [2 volumes] by Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Pdf

This essential reference work enables a deeper understanding of contemporary challenges in the lives of American Indians and Alaskan Natives today, carefully reviewing their unique problems and proposing potential solutions. American Indians face problems in their lives on a daily basis that most other Americans never contend with, and their challenges—which in some cases are similar to those of other minority groups in the United States—are still qualitatively unique. American Indians at Risk gives readers a broad overview of what life in Indian country is like, addressing specific contemporary social issues such as alcoholism, unemployment, and suicide. The author goes beyond detailed descriptions of the problems of American Indians to also present solutions, some of which have been effective in addressing these challenges. Each chapter includes a "Further Investigations" section that presents helpful ideas for additional research.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Legislation
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116478546

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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America by United States. Congress. Senate Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-03-24
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : UIUC:30112059136736

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Federal Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000052067006

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Federal aid to higher education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009866547

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Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and Related Measures by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education Pdf

Author : Carmen Dagostino,Marianne Mithun,Keren Rice
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110712810

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The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America by Carmen Dagostino,Marianne Mithun,Keren Rice Pdf

This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : WISC:89098411952

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Office of Management and Budget. Executive Office of the President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1780 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : 0160936357

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2016 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance by United States. Congress. Senate. Office of Management and Budget. Executive Office of the President Pdf

Identifies and describes specific government assistance opportunities such as loans, grants, counseling, and procurement contracts available under many agencies and programs.