Conference on Heritage/Community Languages

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Program

The conference program included a program overview, map of meeting rooms, conference schedule, and a schedule of panels and poster sessions. Find more information on the conference workshops.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Time Event
8:30 - 9:30 Conference Check-in and Coffee
9:30 -11:00 Session 1
11:15 - 12:15 Plenary: Nancy Hornberger
Click here to download a handout from Nancy Hornberger's plenary.
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch and Poster Sessions
(Box lunch provided to registered participants)
2:00 - 3:30 Session 2
3:45 - 5:15 Session 3
5:30 - 6:30 Plenary/Award Presentation: Guadalupe Valdes
6:30 - 8:00 Reception

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Time Event
8:00 - 9:00 Conference Check-in and Coffee
9:00 - 10:30 Session 1
10:40 - 11:40 Plenary: Maria Polinsky
11:40 - 12:30 Lunch and Poster Sessions
(Box lunch provided to registered participants)
12:30 - 2:00 Session 2
2:15 - 3:45 Session 3
4:00 - 5:30 Session 4
5:40 - 6:40 Plenary: Joe Lo Bianco

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Time Workshops
8:00 - 9:00 Conference Check-in and Coffee
9:00 - 11:00 "An ecological perspective for a standards-based approach to HL development"
Led by Shuhan Wang, National Foreign Language Center, Washington D.C.
11:15 - 1:15 Language-specific workshops were offered for attendees interested in instruction of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Spanish. Workshop leaders presented innovative approaches to teaching heritage language learners and encouraged participation from the audience.