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PROGRAM

Abstract                                                                                            Venue

Heritage languages are the ancestral languages of speakers immersed in a dominant language environment. This international interdisciplinary conference on heritage languages and heritage language acquisition consists of plenaries and pecha kucha presentations* treating current research on the following topics: heritage language sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, acquisition, linguistic analysis, and education. Additional events include a sessions on students’ language histories, and a conversation with Toronto writers Ricardo Sternberg and Martha Batiz, Poets in exile: The language I write in.

Invited Speakers

Terry Au, University of Hong Kong; Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania; Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto; Maria Polinsky, Harvard University; Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California; Thomas Ricento, U. of Calgary.

Location: Victoria College, Alumni Hall, University of Toronto

Date: October 26-27, 2012

Organizing committee: Christina Kramer, Olivia Marasco, Joanne Markle LaMontagne,

Ana T. Pérez-Leroux, Keren Rice, and Stephen Rupp.