http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages Facilitate cutting-edge research about world languages at UCLA en-us UCLA Center for World Languages director is a leader in heritage-language teaching and learning http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=126486High School Summer Language Program offers new online alphabet modules for heritage language learners http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=125221Rahel Woldegaber understands how difficult it can be to teach children another language.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=121924In "Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language and Culture," Professor Marjorie Faulstich Orellana addresses the complex role played by youth who serve as language and culture brokers for their families and others.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=119545We are happy to inform you that the National Heritage Language Resource Center was re-funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Language Resource Center Title VI grant. This means that we are funded for another 4 years, 2010-2014!http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=118009The UCLA Language Materials Project, a database for teachers of less-studied languages, has won $500,000 from the Education Department to add digital instructional materials to its archive. But what an archive. With high-quality images of ephemera and hard-to-find foreign stuff, the website is part resource guide and part travel scrapbook for the global village.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=117147More than 400 students took advantage of L.A.'s linguistic diversity this summer by signing up for Language Intensives in L.A., organized by the Center for World Languages and Summer Sessions.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=111306In innovative summer courses on campus, speakers of less commonly taught languages such as Hindi, Persian and Russian learn advanced skills and keep their heritages alive.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=111154Two summer courses on campus for the high school set, Persian for Persian Speakers and Russian for Russian Speakers, are about acquiring the skills to impress in languages that L.A.-area students have used since they were small children. The UCLA Center for World Languages created the courses with federal funding.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=95559People come to America from around the world...to lose their native languages. As part of a national, UCLA-based effort that aims to reverse language loss, Terrence Wiley of Arizona State University and his graduate students are pointing out the importance of local resources, ethnic media, and community-based language teaching.http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/article.asp?parentid=93249