Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism: Theories, Methods, and Designs

Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key research questions, experimental designs, research techniques, and instruments used to investigate heritage languages.

This ambitious volume covers a variety of linguistic, affective, social, and educational perspectives, all related to heritage language research. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview of the topic under discussion with examples from a variety of heritage languages, is written in a highly accessible way featuring activities, and leads to further research literature. Readers are guided through theoretical background, research justification, creation, use, and the possible outcomes of key research methods.

This exciting text is an invaluable resource for graduate as well as advanced undergraduate students in second language acquisition, language learning, and heritage languages.

Amelia Tseng is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at American University, USA, where she coordinates the Linguistics Program. She serves on the editorial board of Revista Bilingüe/Bilingual Review.

Charles B. Chang is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Boston University, USA. He serves as an Associate Editor for Second Language Research and on the editorial board of the Korean Journal of Linguistics.

Tania Leal is Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA. She is Associate Editor for Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism and contributes to the editorial board of Second Language Research.

Jin Sook Lee is Professor of Education and an Associate Dean of Graduate Division at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She serves on numerous editorial boards including the International Multilingual Research Journal and Bilingual Research Journal.

Belem G. López* is a Social Scientist in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Program at the National Weather Service and previously, she was an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin.

*Dr. López contributed to this article in her personal capacity. The views expressed are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Program, Office of Science and Technology Integration, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Commerce or the United States government.