1               How do we read, discuss & write to learn?

Eschholz, Paul, Alfred Rosa & Virginia Clark. 2005. On reading well. In P. Eschholz, A. Rosa & V. Clark, eds. Language Awareness. Bedford St. Martin’s. 1-12.

·       especially pp. 5-9

2               Writing resources        

Eschholz, Paul, Alfred Rosa & Virginia Clark. 2005. On reading well. In P. Eschholz, A. Rosa & V. Clark, eds. Language Awareness. Bedford St. Martin’s. 655-673.

American Psychological Association. 2010. Basics of APA Style Tutorial. http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/index.htm

Purdue Online Writing Lab. 2005. Reference List: Basic Rules. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/

3          What are your HL experiences?

Chambers, Jack. 2006. Maple Leaf Rap (Canada). In American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast. Blackwell. 93-98.

Nagy, Naomi. 2009. Heritage Language Variation and Change. http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/ngn/HLVC 

Tan, Amy. 2005. Mother tongue. In K. Walters & M. Brody. What's language got to do with it?  Norton. 242-8.

How does fieldwork work?

Schleef, Eric & Miriam Meyerhoff. 2009. In M. Meyerhoff & E. Schleef (eds.). Sociolinguistic methods for data collection and interpretation. The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader New York: Routledge.

·       Read pp. 1-10.

4          What are some connections between ethnicity and language?

·       Choose 1 to read carefully:

Cunha, Edite. 2005. Talking in the new land. In P. Eschholz, A. Rosa & V. Clark. Language Awareness, 9^th edition. Bedford St. Martin's. 544-554.

Marquez, Myriam. 1999. Why and when we speak Spanish in public. In P. Eschholz, A. Rosa & V. Clark, eds. Bedford St. Martin’s. Language Awareness. 200-1.

Oh, Janet & Andrew Fuligni. 2009. The role of heritage language development in the ethnic identity and family relationships of adolescents from immigrant backgrounds. Social Development 19.1:202-220. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00530.x

·       Read to page 208, at least

5          What are some connections between social factors and language? How do we write about research?

·       Choose 1 of these six to read & present (with a group):

Iannozzi, Michael. 2015. Pro-drop in Faetar in Canada: A study of a heritage language in contact. Western Papers in Linguistics 1.2, Article 5. http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wpl_clw/vol1/iss2/5.

Łyskawa, Paulina, Ruth Maddeaux, Emilia Melara & Naomi Nagy. 2016. Heritage speakers follow all the rules: Language contact and convergence in Polish devoicing. Heritage Language Journal 13.2:219-244.

Nagy Naomi, Nina Aghdasi, Derek Denis, & Alex Motut. 2011. Pro-drop in Heritage Languages: A cross-linguistic study of contact-induced change. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 17.2.

Pabst, Katharina, Savannah Meslin, Lex Konnelly & Fiona Wilson. 2017. Transmission of variation between homeland and heritage varieties: A comparative analysis of subject doubling in Faetar. LIN1256 Term Paper, University of Toronto.

Shkvorets, Maksym 2015. Losing one’s Language, or Creating one’s own Dialect? The decline of reflexive possessive pronouns in Heritage Ukrainian. LIN495 Term Paper, University of Toronto.

Tse. Holman. 2016. Contact-induced splits in Toronto Heritage Cantonese mid-vowels. Linguistica Atlantica 35.2:133-155.

6          What can happen to HLs?

Polinsky, Maria & Olga Kagan. 2007. Heritage languages: In the 'wild' and in the classroom. Language and Linguistics Compass 1:368–395.

·       Read pp. 368-384.

7          How do we analyze linguistic structure?

·       no assigned reading

8          How do we analyze language mixing?

Meyerhoff, Miriam 2006. Ch. 6: Multilingualism and language choice.  Introducing Sociolinguistics. Routledge: Taylor & Francis. 102-121.

·       Choose one of the next four to read and present:

Goldstein, Tara. 1997. Bilingual life in a multilingual high school classroom: Teaching and learning in Cantonese and English. The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes 53.2:356-372.

Chumak-Horbatsch, Roma. 1987. Language Use in the Ukrainian home: a Toronto sample. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 63:99-118.

9          How are language, ethnicity and attitude related?

Sevinç, Y. 2018. Language anxiety in the immigrant context: Sweaty palms? International Journal of Bilingualism 22.6:717-739. doi:10.1177/1367006917690914 

Guardado, Martin. 2002. Loss and maintenance of first language skills: Case studies of Hispanic families in Vancouver. Canadian Modern Language Review 58.3:341-363.

10        What do we know about HLs in school?

Ricento, Thomas. 2013. Language policy, ideology, and attitudes in English-dominant countries. In R. Bayley, R. Cameron & C. Lucas, eds. The Oxford handbook of Sociolinguistics. 525-544. Oxford University Press.

Polinsky, Maria & Olga Kagan. 2007. Heritage languages: In the 'wild' and in the classroom. Language and Linguistics Compass 1: 368–395.

·       read 384-390.

11        How are politics and globalization relevant to HLs?

Crystal, David. 2003/2005. Why a global language? In K. Walters & M. Brody. What's language got to do with it?  Norton. 504-14.

Last updated Feb. 26, 2019