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Introduction / Kimi Kondo-Brown and James Dean Brown -- Issues and future agendas for teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean heritage students / Kimi Kondo-Brown -- Japanese and English language ability of students at supplementary Japanese schools in the United States / Hiroko C. Kataoka, Yasuko Koshiyama, and Setsuko Shibata -- Measuring the Japanese proficiency of heritage language children / Tomomi Hasegawa -- Heritage and nonheritage learners of Korean: sentence processing differences and their pedagogical implications / Hi-Sun Helen Kim -- A separate track for advanced heritage language students?: Japanese intersentential referencing / Kimi Kondo-Brown and Chie Fukuda -- Heritage language learners` attitudes, motivations and instructional needs: the case of postsecondary Korean language learners / Jin Sook Lee and Hae-Young Kim -- Developing "a compromise curriculum" for Korean heritage and nonheritage learners / William H. Yu -- The affective needs of limited proficiency heritage language learners: perspectives from a Chinese foreign language classroom / Heather Dawn Weger-Guntharp -- Curriculum design for young learners of Japanese as a heritage language / Masako O. Douglas -- Robust learning for Chinese heritage learners: motivation, linguistics and technology / Sue-mei Wu -- Online chat for heritage learners of Chinese / De Zhang and Niki Davis.

This book contributes to building the research knowledge that language teaching professionals need in developing curriculum for the large population of East Asian heritage students (including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) in countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia, where speakers of East Asian languages are among the fastest growing populations. Heritage learners are defined as those who initially acquired certain levels of linguistic and cultural competence in a non-dominant language mainly through interaction with foreign-born parents and other family members at home. Providing theoretical and practical information about heritage-language instruction in terms of curriculum design, learner needs, materials development, and assessment procedures, the goal of this book is not only to promote research about heritage students in East Asian languages but also to improve the teaching of these students in various educational settings and all over the world, especially in English speaking countries.

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