The growing amount of research in heritage languages (HL) consistently suggests that HL learners are a diverse population with language abilities that span across the whole spectrum of the bilingual range (Valdés 2001). Receptive bilinguals, sometimes called passive bilinguals, are at one end of this bilingual range, almost at the verge of culminating the language shift towards English monolingualism. This population of HL students has received scant attention from HL programs and researchers alike. The present study fills this gap in the literature by focusing specifically on receptive bilinguals of different generations enrolled in Spanish classes at a large university in the southwestern United States. It seeks to provide insights into their cultural and linguistic profile so as to begin to understand the factors that have influenced their current Spanish use and linguistic abilities in the language.
2022. Transfer in L3 cognate language acquisition: The role of language background on instructed L3 Portuguese acquisition
. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 60:2 ► pp. 143 ff.
DeFeo, Dayna Jean
2015. Spanish Is Foreign: Heritage Speakers’ Interpretations of the Introductory Spanish Language Curriculum. International Multilingual Research Journal 9:2 ► pp. 108 ff.
DeFeo, Dayna Jean
2018. Profiles of an Acquisition Generation: Nontraditional Heritage Speakers of Spanish. International Multilingual Research Journal 12:1 ► pp. 3 ff.
Fairclough, Marta & Flavia Belpoliti
2016. Emerging literacy in Spanish among Hispanic heritage language university students in the USA: a pilot study. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 19:2 ► pp. 185 ff.
Garcia, Lorena
2018. Language and (Re)Negotiations of Latinx Identity: Latinx Parents’ Approaches to Spanish and Bilingualism. Social Problems
Goble, Ryan A.
2020. Stancetaking and heritage language production: the untold stories of spoken Spanish among third-generation “receptive” bilinguals. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 17:4 ► pp. 247 ff.
Koo, EunJoo & Anna Kim
2024. Linguistic Inclusiveness in Organizations: A Russophone Bank in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Academy of Management Journal
Limerick, Nicholas
2023. Linguistic Registers and Citizenship Education: Divergent Approaches to Content, Instruction, Kichwa Use, and State Relationships in Ecuador’s Intercultural Bilingual Education. American Educational Research Journal 60:2 ► pp. 219 ff.
Parada, Maryann
2013. Sibling Variation and Family Language Policy: The Role of Birth Order in the Spanish Proficiency and First Names of Second-Generation Latinos. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 12:5 ► pp. 299 ff.
Pascual y Cabo, Diego, Josh Prada & Kelly Lowther Pereira
2017. Effects of Community Service-Learning on Heritage Language Learners' Attitudes Toward Their Language and Culture. Foreign Language Annals 50:1 ► pp. 71 ff.
Schalley, Andrea C., Susana A. Eisenchlas & Diana Guillemin
2016. Multilingualism and literacy: practices and effects. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 19:2 ► pp. 127 ff.
2019. THE CONTRIBUTION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL VARIABLES TO HERITAGE LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE OF SPANISH. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 41:04 ► pp. 695 ff.
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