2025 Heritage Language Learning Symposium (Feb20-21)
The 2025 Heritage Language Learning Symposium is an event sponsored by the Department of Languages, Cultures and Translations, as well as the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences.
The event will be held on February 20-21, 2025 from 10:00am – 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time.
Description
The symposium offers the possibility to learn about current research on heritage language learning as well as to get practical tools to teach Heritage Speakers. We have invited six prominent scholars who have been engaged in the field of Heritage Language Education. The Presenters will share their research and knowledge with UNC Charlotte faculty, graduate and undergraduate students as well as with attendees from other institutions. For 2025, the Heritage Language Learning Symposium will focus on promoting a broad understanding of literacy practices and training for heritage speakers by bringing together experts in the fields of bilingual education in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese and Spanish.
This event will hold research presentations throughout the day and workshops in the afternoon where attendees will have the opportunity to interact with and learn from the invited experts.
Organizing team Charlotte Faculty
- Olga Padilla-Falto, Ph.D.
- Chikako Mori, M.A.
- Noha Ghali, Ph.D.
- Ryan Augustyniak, Ph.D.
- Fang-Yi Chao, Ph.D.
- Javier García León, P.h.D.
- Paloma Fernández Sánchez, Ph.D.
Symposium Goals
This symposium has five primary goals:
- increase understanding of and knowledge about heritage speakers in the American educational context,
- reflect on how Innovative approaches to language teaching can benefit heritage students and L2 learners in the Carolinas,
- provide language instructors with pedagogical tools to better teach to U.S. heritage speakers and L2 learners in mixed classrooms,
- strengthen bilingual/heritage language education practices by connecting scholars, language instructors, and students at Charlotte and abroad, and
- reflect on how teaching strategies have a different socio-affective impact on heritage language learners and L2 learners.
More information coming soon
Registration
There is no cost to attend this Symposium, but you must be registered in advance. The deadline for registration is February 1st, 2025. Click the following link to register:
Contact
Please contact the the following Symposium organizers if you have any questions or comments:
Dr. Paloma Fernández Sánchez (palomafernandezsanchez@charlotte.edu)