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What Is a Heritage Language, Olga Kagan?

The director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA (and of CWL) answers some frequently asked questions.

What Do You Do, Terry Wiley?

The director of the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Arizona State University discusses his multidisciplinary approach with CWL's Kathryn Paul.

 
The New Language Classroom

The New Language Classroom

Innovative language teaching doesn't have to be high-tech, but in a new media age the foreign language classroom is changing. This newly launched website looks into how.

Visit the New Language Classroom

LA Language World

LA Language World

LA Language World is an online publication that looks at one city's linguistic diversity case by case.

Visit LA Language World

National Heritage Language Resource Center

National Heritage Language Resource Center

The Center's mission is to develop effective pedagogical approaches to teaching heritage language learners, first by creating a research base and then by pursuing curriculum design, materials development, and teacher education.

Visit the NHLRC

Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging

Heritage Language Education:
A New Field Emerging

Focuses on issues at the forefront of heritage language teaching and research. Its state-of-the-art presentation will make this volume a standard reference book for investigators, teachers, and students.

Heritage Language Journal

an online blind-refereed journal dedicated to the issues underlying the teaching and learning of heritage languages. heritagelanguages.org

Special issues on
Russian | Chinese | TESOL & Heritage Language Education

Academic Programs

Academic Programs

ESL Programs

Improve your English for academic, personal or employment reasons.

Languages taught at UCLA

UCLA offers courses in more than 40 languages. Enroll in regular departmental courses to meet your foreign language requirements or to learn languages for personal interest.

Language Intensives in L.A.

Language Intensives in L.A.

The 2008 summer program will feature classes in seventeen languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Chinese, Estonian, Hebrew, Igbo, Iranian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian/Moldavian, Russian, Swahili, Tigrinya, Turkish, Yoruba, Xhosa, and Zulu.

Learn more about Language Intensives in L.A.