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Heritage Language Development

Heritage Language Development is a sociolinguistic and educational process whereby individuals acquire, maintain, and enhance a language historically spoken within their family or community, particularly in contexts where it is not the dominant societal language, distinguishing it from second language acquisition by emphasizing ancestral, cultural, and identity-based transmission.

491

Publications

29.4K

Citations

686

Authors

312

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

165

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Publications

491

Heritage Languages: In the ‘Wild’ and in the Classroom

Maria Polinsky, Olga Kagan · Language and Linguistics Compass · 2007 · 859 citations · Full text

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Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics

Elabbas Benmamoun, Silvina Montrul, Maria Polinsky · Theoretical Linguistics · 2013 · 750 citations · Full text

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Bilingualism, Heritage Language Learners, and SLA Research: Opportunities Lost or Seized?

Guadalupe Valdés · Modern Language Journal · 2005 · 601 citations

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A proposal for action: Strategies for recognizing heritage language competence as a learning resource within the mainstream classroom.

Jim Cummins · Modern Language Journal · 2005 · 580 citations

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Understanding the nature and outcomes of early bilingualism: Romance languages as heritage languages

Jason Rothman · International Journal of Bilingualism · 2009 · 565 citations

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1–5 of 491

Authors

686

  1. MP
    Maria Polinsky

    Harvard University Press, United States

    15 publications · 2.7K citations

    13

    h-index

  2. SM
    Silvina Montrul

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    14 publications · 1.7K citations

    12

    h-index

  3. CF
    Cristina Flores

    University of Minho, Portugal

    12 publications · 551 citations

    12

    h-index

  4. JR
    Jason Rothman

    UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

    9 publications · 1.9K citations

    9

    h-index

  5. TK
    Tanja Kupisch

    University of Konstanz, Germany

    9 publications · 836 citations

    9

    h-index

1–5 of 686

Institutions

312

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    15 h-index

    21 publications

    2.8K citations

  2. UiT The Arctic University of Norway

    Tromsø, Norway

    13 h-index

    29 publications

    2K citations

  3. University of Minho

    Braga, Portugal

    12 h-index

    14 publications

    651 citations

  4. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    499 citations

  5. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    9 h-index

    18 publications

    3.8K citations

  6. University of Konstanz

    Konstanz, Germany

    9 h-index

    12 publications

    913 citations

  7. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    871 citations

  8. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    931 citations

1–8 of 312

Venues

  1. Heritage Language Journal

    50 publications · 2.4K citations

    24

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  2. 20

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  3. Language Culture and Curriculum

    20 publications · 1.6K citations

    19

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  4. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

    JMMD · 23 publications · 1.2K citations

    19

    h-index

  5. International Journal of Bilingualism

    IJB · 22 publications · 2.3K citations

    17

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