The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

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The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements is written by Fatih Bayram and published by Frontiers Media SA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 2832546935 (ISBN 10) and 9782832546932 (ISBN 13).

Over the past three decades studies investigating heritage speaker (HS) linguistic competencies have shown, time and again that, despite being L1 or 2L1 native speakers of their home language(s), HS outcomes display variation across a wide spectrum of differences as compared to each other, other types of bilinguals as well as their monolingual peers. Studies have traditionally used—mostly behavioral—methodologies rooted in adjacent established fields (e.g., L1 acquisition, adult L2 acquisition) offering, in addition to documenting and describing HS performance, important insights for linguistic theory and challenges related to (home/minority) language maintenance, contact, policy and more. A birds-eye view makes it clear that the methodologies one uses to tap into HSs’ linguistic knowledge areas, if not more, are important than the phenomena under investigation, especially in light of how their unique experiences with their heritage and other languages are present across a continuum.