Identities Development of Adult Chinese Heritage Language Learners from Southeast Asian American Families

Interactive patterns in paired discussions between Chinese heritage and Chinese foreign language learners

Having acquired some degree of oral proficiency but low (or non-existent) literacy, the learning of Chinese heritage learners’ (CHLs) learning needs are different from those of Chinese foreign language learners (CFLs), who have learned Chinese only in the classroom setting. Although researchers have advocated for a separate curriculum for CHLs, creating a heritage track may not be an option for...

Teaching American Sign Language to Hearing Adult Learners

American Sign Language (ASL) has become a very popular language in high schools, colleges, and universities throughout the U.S., due, in part, to the growing number of schools that allow students to take the language in order to fulfill a foreign or general language requirement. Within the past couple decades, the number of students enrolled in ASL classes has increased dramatically, and there ...

Developing culturally responsive approaches with Southeast Asian American families experiencing developmental disabilities.

OBJECTIVE Southeast Asian American families are underrepresented among recipients of special education and social services for people with developmental disabilities. Our aims were to use a community-based participatory research approach to examine Hmong and Mien families' perceptions of developmental disabilities and understand barriers to and facilitators of service provision among families e...

effect of oral presentation on development of l2 learners grammar

this experimental study has been conducted to test the effect of oral presentation on the development of l2 learners grammar. but this oral presentation is not merely a deductive instruction of grammatical points, in this presentation two hypotheses of krashen (input and low filter hypotheses), stevicks viewpoints on grammar explanation and correction and widdowsons opinion on limited use of l1...

Two families in Sri Lanka with Southeast Asian ovalocytosis.