Connecting Your Classroom to the
Heritage Language Community

1:30
Registration/check-in
2:00
Welcome and Introductions
Olga Kagan, NHLRC
2:15
Presentation and Q&A
Terry Wiley and Gerda de Klerk, ASU
- Part I: Contextualizing Heritage and Community Language Education in the U.S. Brief overview of the historical, demographic, and legal context.
- Part II: The ASU Project Key Research Questions on Doing HL Community-Based Research. An overview of the questions and concerns investigated through case studies and survey research used to create historic-to-contemporary sketches of heritage language communities
3:15–3:30
Break
3:30–4:30
Learning and Internships in the Community
Kathy O'Byrne, UCLA
4:45–5:45
Community-based Curricula Developments
Maria Carreira, CSULB, and Juliana Wijaya, UCLA
5:45
Reception

8:30
Coffee
9:00–10:00
Approaches to Working with HL-CL Communities
Terry Wiley and Gerda de Klerk, ASU
- This session will provide an overview of methods for analyzing, approaching, accessing, and working with HL-communities. It will focus on how to connect students and language teachers with communities to help familiarize them with real world contextual functions and uses of languages in the community and resources in the community that promote the maintenance of the language. Examples of community efforts to promote HL-community languages will be provided of both creative public school efforts and engaged community-sponsored programs.
10:00–10:20
Break and walk to the Lu Valle Lab
10:20–12:00
Approaches to Doing Demographic Analysis: Finding Resources, Using Tools
Gerda de Klerk, UCLA, and Ted Liu, CDH, UCLA
- This will be a hands-on session in a computer lab with emphasis on finding and analyzing publicly available data on HL communities, including US Census data, and using online mapping tools for creating community maps.
- Participants explore language communities they are interested in.
12:15–1:30
Lunch and discussion of possible projects
1:30–2:45
Exploring Future Projects
Rolfe 2112
Terry Wiley and Gerda de Klerk
2:45–3:00
Close and evaluations

Connecting Your Classroom to theHeritage Language Community