The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education From Innovation to Program Building
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. | The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education From Innovation to Program Building
