Short description:

Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key research questions, experimental designs, research techniques, and instruments used to investigate heritage languages.

Long description:

Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key research questions, experimental designs, research techniques, and instruments used to investigate heritage languages.

This ambitious volume covers a variety of linguistic, affective, social, and educational perspectives, all related to heritage language research. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview of the topic under discussion with examples from a variety of heritage languages, written in a highly accessible way featuring activities and leads to further research literature. Readers are guided through theoretical background, research justification, creation, use, and the possible outcomes of key research methods.

This exciting text is an invaluable resource for graduate as well as advanced undergraduate students in second language acquisition, language learning, and heritage languages.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements

1          Introduction to Heritage Language Research and Key Theoretical Constructs

2          Online Methods for Examining Heritage Speaker Morphosyntax 

3          Offline Methods for Examining Heritage Speaker Morphosyntax

4          Examining Heritage Language Speech Production

5          Examining Heritage Language Speech Perception

6          Statistical Considerations in the Study of Heritage Bilingual Speakers

7          Language Brokers and Heritage Language Speakers

8          Heritage Language Maintenance in Families and Communities

9          Heritage Language Education

10        Heritage Language Identity

11        Language Attitudes and Ideology

12        Conclusion

Index