The Center for English as a Second Language

I teach at CESL, which is on the SIUC campus. The website is http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/

Heritage Language Maintenance and loss

I'm very interested in heritage language maintenance and loss. I have written on the 1998 Catalan Language Law, which protected and promoted this minority language spoken in southeastern Spain and southwestern France. Now I am currently writing a PhD dissertation on heritage maintenance and loss in my bilingual boy/girl twins. Their mother tongue and the language of the home is Spanish, but they are surrounded by English. I am very interested in personal, institutional, and governmental attempts at protecting minority languages.

Some good websites include

www.international.ucla.edu/languages/nhlrc/journal.asp

www.heritagelanguages.org

www.cal.org/heritage