Handbook of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages in the United States

Research, Policy, and Educational Practice

Terrence G. Wiley, Joy Kreeft Peyton, Donna Christian, Sarah Catherine K. Moore, Na Liu, Terrence G. Wiley, Joy Kreeft Peyton, Donna Christian, Sarah Catherine K. Moore, Na Liu

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780415520676
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136332487
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Co-published by the Center for Applied Linguistics

Timely and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art overview of major issues related to heritage, community, and Native American languages in the United States, based on the work of noted authorities, draws from a variety of perspectives—the speakers; use of the languages in the home, community, and wider society; patterns of acquisition, retention, loss, and revitalization of the languages; and specific education efforts devoted to developing stronger connections with and proficiency in them. Contributions on language use, programs and instruction, and policy focus on issues that are applicable to many heritage language contexts. Offering a foundational perspective for serious students of heritage, community, and Native American languages as they are learned in the classroom, transmitted across generations in families, and used in communities, the volume provides background on the history and current status of many languages in the linguistic mosaic of U.S. society and stresses the importance of drawing on these languages as societal, community, and individual resources, while also noting their strategic importance within the context of globalization.

Index

Page numbers in italics followed by an f indicate figures, a t indicate tables

Abuela Project 181–2

Accommodation Theory 324–5

Acculturation Model 324

ACS see American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau)

ACTFL see American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

Action Cadienne 104–5

Administration for Native Americans (ANA) 372

adoption 159

Adoptive Families magazine 159

“affirmative ethnicity” 47

Africa, French speakers from 101–2

African American Vernacular English 292

after school programs 333, 345–6

agency 79

‘Aha Pūnana Leo (Hilo, Hawai‘i), 221, 223, 223t, 226

AILDI see American Indian Language Development Institute

Algonquian languages 189, 214

Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages 96, 111, 154, 337, 361–3, 368, 380

American Association for Applied Linguistics 315

American Association of Teachers of Korean 257

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 78, 364

American Community Surveys (ACS, U.S. Census Bureau) 3, 6, 13–17, 14–17t, 37; see also demographics; U.S. Census Bureau

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 66, 70, 315, 361–2

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) 172;

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Proficiency Guidelines 352–3

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Standards for Foreign Language Learning 76, 364

American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) 190, 233, 235

American School for the Deaf (ASD) 273

American Sign Language (ASL) 60, 241, 272–83, 379

Amish 112

ANA see Administration for Native Americans

Anabaptists, German-speaking 88, 112–13

Ancestral language

ancient dwellings, Four Corners area 202

Anishinaabemdaa School (Manistee, MI) 375

Annual Survey of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children and Youth 274–5; background and historical overview 272–4; communication and video technologies 279–80; deaf families and communities 272–3, 277–8; demographics 272–5, 276t; future prospects for ASL and deaf communities 280–1; heritage signers/learners of 275–6, 276; intergenerational transmission 276–7; mainstream education and 278–9; Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) 273; number of ASL signers in the U.S. 274–5; postsecondary education 279; primary pathways to access 276t; questions for deaf education 280–1; schools for the deaf 273–4; teletypewriters (TTYs) 279–80; workplace and the media 279

Arabic 102, 145–6, 148–56, 339; African slave...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Fulltitle Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• SECTION I Foundations of Heritage, Community, and Native American Language Education
• SECTION II Commonly Taught Languages
• SECTION III Critical and Less Commonly Taught Languages
• SECTION IV Native American Languages
• SECTION V Languages With Strong Community Connections
• SECTION VI Promotion of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages
• Contributors
• Index