Tapping a National Resource: Heritage Languages in the United States. ERIC Digest.

Richard D. Brecht · Catherine W. Ingold

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This digest outlines the reasons for and challenges of developing the language skills of heritage language speakers and describes one effort to carry this out, the Heritage Languages Initiative. Specific sections address the following: developing language skills of U.S. residents; the range of language proficiencies of heritage language speakers; the fragility of heritage languages; limitations of current language programs; deficits in infrastructure; and the formation of the Heritage Languages Initiative. (WL) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. vl 4 DIGEST EDO-FL-02-02 MAY 2002 Tapping a National Resource: Heritage Languages in the United States RICHARD D. BRECHT AND CATHERINE W. INGOLD, NATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER, WASHINGTON, DC vl

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