Sociolinguistics are of paramount importance in heritage language (HL) education because
the macro-sociolinguistic context shapes HL speakers' language experiences, knowledge …

This chapter examines the ways in which the diverse personal histories and media practices
of three bilingual parents shape the dynamics of language use in their families. Our case …

This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-
, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora …

The present study aims to better understand the maintenance of the Spanish language
among Spanish speakers of Mexican family origin in Kansas. The study (a) examines the …

This article examines the language ideologies of the lead teacher and of five Mexican
mothers of Spanish-speaking, emergent bilingual children in a Head Start program in …

US Mexican Spanish West of the Mississippi proposes a macro-dialect of the most widely
spoken Spanish variety in the western United States from a number of social and linguistic …

Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning addresses the
ways in which discourses about language value and identities of linguistic expertise are …

Canada is home to millions of immigrants from diverse origins and backgrounds, and yet
there is limited research on the country's growing population of minority language groups …

This article offers an alternative to revamp the Spanish curriculum with an emphasis on
heritage language (HL) courses with a social justice mission that promotes falling in love …

Faced with an increasing number of speakers abandoning the use of the world's minoritised
languages, this thesis investigates two language communities by observing the linguistic …