Washington Post article covers heritage language revival attempts by children of immigration11/2/2013 Nice article in the Washington Post magazine profiles a young man named Daniel Chen, a second generation child of Chinese immigrants from Shanghai, and tells the story "about the isolating power of a lost mother tongue and an education spent retrieving it". Like many such stories, it is complex, involving movement, translation, frustration, and determination. The author details the phenomenon of first language attrition, which I have documented in my own research, spends some space on the critical period, and does an overall nice job of linking language development and loss within the larger contexts of immigration and family cohesion. Definitely worth a read.
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I am a professor in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College, and director of the Curriculum & Instruction doctoral program. I have served as an associate editor at Child Development, Applied Psycholinguistics, and an editor at Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. I was a bilingual teacher in Detroit, MI and have worked in district, state, and nonprofit settings. I work with bilingual learners from multilingual homes in K-8 settings, thinking about language use and development, cross-linguistic relations, instructional interventions, and teacher practice. I've published a bunch of articles and book chapters, and have developed language and reading curricula. I always work in close collaboration with teachers to facilitate the translation of research to practice.
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