Podcasts

Russian Popular Culture: Experiments in Consolation and Anti-Glamour

An interview with Professor David Macfadyen, UCLA Slavic Department

Ruminations on Heritage Languages: A Few (Semi)Radical Thoughts

Podcast by Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University

Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Ten Certainties

Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

Why Bother with Heritage Speakers?

Maria Polinksy, Harvard University

Special Presentation: Using Translation in the Heritage Language Classroom

Michael Heim, University of California, Los Angeles

The Heritage Language Discourse: Making Headway in Policy

Joseph Lo Bianco, University of Melbourne and President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

10 languages and counting. Part 1

Michael Heim, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA, says he's never learned a language just for the sake of learning it, and he tells why experts write the worst textbooks.

10 languages and counting. Part 2

Michael Heim on the importance of learning languages.

What Is It About Swahili, Tom Hinnebusch?

A UCLA professor emeritus of linguistics talks about language-counting, what makes Swahili special, and what becomes of manuscripts in East Africa.

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.

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