I’m giving a short talk as part of a panel presentation on heritage languages for the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) this week. Below are links to the studies I’m discussing: How Should Heritage Languages Be Taught? The Effects of a Free Voluntary Reading Program. Foreign Language Annals (1996). Reading versus Grammar: What Students […]
Heritage Language Development (Krashen, Tse, & McQuillan, 1998) – Free Book
One of the first collections of papers on heritage language acquisition and education was , published in 1998 and edited by Stephen Krashen, Lucy Tse, and me. The book contains both original research and comprehensive reviews on several important issues related heritage languages and their continued maintenance. The book is now available for free in PDF […]
Memo to The American Conservative: Bilingual Education Will Not Actually Make Californians Bilingual
A writer at The American Conservative website has a long discussion on the supposed perils of bilingualism that, he believes, may soon come to pass now that California has voted to allow schools to use bilingual education in the teaching of English. Unhappily, the writer does not appear to have any actual knowledge of bilingual education programs. I […]
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