Survey of Heritage Language Teaching at UCLA

Appendix 2 -- Table 2: Heritage speakers in UCLA Language Courses, Fall 1999

Approximate numbers in all courses, in numerical order

Language

Approximate number of Heritage speakers across all language department courses

Spanish 30 in specific courses for HL but a large, unidentified number in other advanced courses
Chinese 200-250
Korean 200-250
Russian 81
Vietnamese 57
Tagalog 34
Egyptian Colloquial Arabic 25
Hindi 25
Persian 24
Hebrew 17
Japanese 15
Polish 11
Thai 10-12
Ukrainian 2
Indonesian 1-3

This survey project, conducted Fall 1999, was produced under the auspices of the Language Resource Center, by Helen Reid, in collaboration with Olga Kagan, Chairperson of the Foreign Language Resource Committee.