Bibliography of Heritage Language Resources

This brief bibliography lists books and web resources on aspects of heritage language knowledge and education. While several works focus on a single language or family of languages, all works listed have general application.

 

1.

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Spanish for Native Speakers, Volume 1. AATSP Professional Development Series Handbook for Teachers K-16. New York, NY: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000.

2.

Andrews, David. Sociocultural Perspectives on Language Change in Diaspora: Soviet Immigrants in the United States (Impact: Studies in Language and Society, 5). Amsterdam/Philidelphia: John Benjamins, 1998.

3.

Blyth, Carl (Ed.). Sociolinguistics of Foreign-Language Classrooms. Boston, MA: Heinle, 2002.

4.

Brinton, Donna, Olga Kagan, & Susan Bauckus, eds. Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging. New York: Routledge, 2008.

5.

Kagan, Olga, and Benjamin Rifkin with Susan Bauckus, eds. The Teaching and Learning of Slavic Languages and Cultures, Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2000. (Chapter 6 is on heritage learners.)

6.

Kondo-Brown, Kimi (Ed.). Heritage Language Development: Focus on East Asian Immigrants. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins B.V., 2006.

7.

Kondo-Brown, Kimi, & James D. Brown, eds. Teaching heritage students in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

8.

Krashen, Steven., Lucy Tse, and Jeff McQuillan, eds. Heritage Language Development. Culver City, CA: Language Education Associates, 1998.

9.

Peyton, Joy Kreeft, Donald A. Ranard, and Scott McGinnis, eds. Heritage Languages in America: Preserving a National Resource. McHenry, IL: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC: CAL, ERIC ; [McHenry, IL] : Delta Systems Co., Inc., 2001.

10.

Roca, Ana and M. Cecilia Colombi, eds. Mi Lengua: Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003.

11.

Shin, Sarah, Development in Two Languages: Korean Children in America. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters LTD, 2005.

12.

Webb, John, and Barbara Miller, eds. Teaching Heritage Learners: Voices from the Classroom. Ed. John Webb and Barbara Miller. New York: ACTFL, 2000.

13.

Wiley, Terrance G. Literacy and Language Diversity in the United States. Delta Systems and Center for Applied Linguistics, 1996 and 2005.

 

Web Resources

1.

Roca, A., Marcos, K., and Winke, P. Teaching Spanish to Spanish Speakers: A Center for Applied Linguistics resource.

2.

U.S. Census Bureau. Allows for searches of speakers of other languages by geographical region.

3.

The Modern Language Association Language Map: A Map of Languages in the United States. Languages spoken in the U.S, based on U.S. Census data; it may be easier to use than the Census Web site.