A heritage language is a sociopolitically minority and/or minoritized language acquired as
the first or one of the first languages in a bilingual or multilingual context. Heritage …

The notion of the native speaker has occupied a prominent place in foreign/second
language research and theoretical linguistics: it has influenced both the way we theorize …

We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their
languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a …

In 2005, Science magazine designated the problem of accounting for difficulties in L2
(second language) learning as one of the 125 outstanding challenges facing scientific …

Crosslinguistic Influence and Second Language Learning provides a comprehensive
overview of what is currently known about prior language knowledge and experience in …

This article examines the language ideologies undergirding university English language
admission requirements. Universities are today caught between the order of the nation state …

Late bilinguals who spend (part of) their adult lives in an environment where a language
other than the one they learned in childhood is spoken typically experience a range of …

Learner corpora have generally focused on intermediate and advanced learners/users.
Corpora of beginners are rare but just as important. Second Language Acquisition (SLA) …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …

The present study investigated lexical production and innovation of 202 participants across
six groups: child and adult heritage speakers of Russian, dominant in Hebrew or American …