Friday, March 10, 2023

HELADA Language Repository

The Heritage Language Data (HELADA) Repository aims to provide an open-access online platform to preserve heritage language data and allow researchers both to access it and contribute their own data.

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Endangared Languages and Discrimination

Every two weeks, one of the world's estimated 7,000 languages becomes extinct. It is estimated that only about half of our current languages will still be spoken in the coming century. When UNESCO's "International Mother Language Day" is celebrated on 21 February, another language is about to die.

Friday, January 20, 2023

Spotlight: Coalition of Community-Based Schools

The Coalition of Community-Based Language Schools held its ninth annual conference on October 7th and 8th, 2022.

Friday, August 12, 2022

NHLRC Receives Language Resource Center Funding

The National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) at the University of California, Los Angeles has been awarded four years of grant funding for fiscal years 2022–2025 by the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI Language Resource Centers (LRC) program to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively, particularly less commonly taught languages.

Friday, June 11, 2021

Expanding heritage & project-based teaching of Southeast Asian languages

Southeast Asian language instructors from across the U.S. were trained on the principles and practices of Project-Based Learning and how it could complement heritage language teaching.

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Experimenting with new ways to teach Southeast Asian languages during the pandemic

The latest webinar organized by the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages trained language faculty on how to better teach multiword units to second language learners.

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

W3: Heritage languages and bilingualism: Collaboration and synthesis

Call for abstracts for workshop talks, deadline: 1st February 2020