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Judith Ansó Ros; Minna Maijala; Nelli Valkamo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Globalisation has resulted in European families that have a variety of home languages, leading to the need for heritage language learning (HLL). The purpose of HLL is to ensure that in addition to learning the language of their schools, children with migrant backgrounds also maintain their heritage language (HL). Besides the 'regular' teaching, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Teacher Role, Language Maintenance
Downes, P. J. – 1985
A course in child development offered at a British secondary school focused on language development. The primary objective was to sharpen college students' awareness of the language development of children they meet in their everyday lives and children they study during the course. The teacher's role is to extract linguistic theory from the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Course Objectives