"Heritage Speakers": Loss of a Treasure?

Autor/in	Zehr, Mary Ann
Titel	"Heritage Speakers": Loss of a Treasure?
Quelle	In: Education Week, 25 (2006) 30, S.1 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Native Language Instruction; Native Speakers; Semitic Languages; Language Skill Attrition; Public Schools; Second Language Instruction; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Native language education; Muttersprachlicher Unterricht; Muttersprachler; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Sprachverfall; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Fremdsprachenunterricht
Abstract	If the United States is going to take advantage of the linguistic skills of millions of children in this country who speak languages other than English at home, policy has to change at the district, state, and national levels, experts in the field say. Citing Dearborn public schools as an example, the author illustrates the importance of heritage speakers in the United States. Located in the industrial suburb of Detroit, 40% of Dearborn's 17,700 students are of Arab descent. Many of heritage speakers in this district are fluent in Arabic, they however, can barely read or write the language. Not many U.S. public schools provide the training to build on students' home languages other than English, even when they have a critical mass speaking the same language. Instead, schools almost overwhelmingly focus on students who are learning foreign languages from scratch. This article also includes a music video of 2nd graders at Becker Elementary School in Dearborn, Michigan, rehearsing a song in Arabic. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10