Here are a few other domestic language institutes taking place this summer the via University of Texas and some affiliates. Visit the link for more info.
Midwest Heritage Language Summit: Fostering the Languages of Your Community
The Midwest Heritage Language Network is pleased to announce that we will be holding a one-day summit on heritage languages in the community at Michigan State University on April 23, 2016. The summit will consist of a keynote speaker and a series of panels to address issues related to heritage speakers and the larger community. The topics of the panels will include heritage speakers and the business community, health care, educational resources, and bilingualism and family language maintenance.
Adapting and Creating Activities for Heritage Learners of Spanish
June 10 @ 8:00 am - June 11 @ 5:00 pm
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Austin, TX United States
Summer workshop for K-16 teachers of heritage learners of Spanish will provide participants plenty of time to design lessons for their own classes. With guidance from presenters, participants will find new ways to meet the particular needs of their heritage learners by applying a variety of strategies for adapting, creating, and sharing original activities based on textbooks, open educational videos, and digital storytelling techniques. The event is part of COERLL's Heritage Spanish project, which seeks to build a community of Spanish…
June 10 @ 8:00 am - June 11 @ 5:00 pm
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Austin, TX United States
Summer workshop for K-16 teachers of heritage learners of Spanish will provide participants plenty of time to design lessons for their own classes. With guidance from presenters, participants will find new ways to meet the particular needs of their heritage learners by applying a variety of strategies for adapting, creating, and sharing original activities based on textbooks, open educational videos, and digital storytelling techniques. The event is part of COERLL's Heritage Spanish project, which seeks to build a community of Spanish…
Ninth Heritage Language Research Institute
June 15 @ 8:00 am - June 18 @ 5:00 pm
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Seattle, WA United States
From bilingual children to adult heritage speakers Heritage languages are learned early in life, either simultaneously with the dominant language or prior to the acquisition of the dominant language of the country. Early childhood bilinguals are often fluent in both languages, their home language and the dominant societal language. Furthermore, both languages influence each other in early childhood bilinguals. Many of such bilinguals grow up to become adult heritage speakers who are typically stronger in the dominant language and whose…
June 15 @ 8:00 am - June 18 @ 5:00 pm
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Seattle, WA United States
From bilingual children to adult heritage speakers Heritage languages are learned early in life, either simultaneously with the dominant language or prior to the acquisition of the dominant language of the country. Early childhood bilinguals are often fluent in both languages, their home language and the dominant societal language. Furthermore, both languages influence each other in early childhood bilinguals. Many of such bilinguals grow up to become adult heritage speakers who are typically stronger in the dominant language and whose…
Teaching Heritage Languages and Learners
July 25 @ 9:00 am - July 29 @ 4:00 pm
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Minneapolis, MN United States
Teaching heritage learners is not the same as teaching learners of a foreign language. Heritage languages are languages other than English that are spoken in homes, communities, and extended families. Although many of our students come from vibrant multilingual contexts, these languages (and literacy in them) are often not developed early on in schools. When students are given the opportunity to use, learn, and expand on their heritage languages, they have an abundance of resources and knowledge they can tap…
July 25 @ 9:00 am - July 29 @ 4:00 pm
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Minneapolis, MN United States
Teaching heritage learners is not the same as teaching learners of a foreign language. Heritage languages are languages other than English that are spoken in homes, communities, and extended families. Although many of our students come from vibrant multilingual contexts, these languages (and literacy in them) are often not developed early on in schools. When students are given the opportunity to use, learn, and expand on their heritage languages, they have an abundance of resources and knowledge they can tap…
