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标题：Teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Heritage Students: Curriculum Needs, Materials, and Assessment
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作者：Kimi Kondo-Brown ; James Dean Brown, Eds.
期刊名称：TESL-EJ
印刷版ISSN：1072-4303
出版年度：2008
卷号：12
期号：01
出版社：T E S L - E J
摘要：With 12% of the U.S. population foreign-born and the number of students from East-Asian backgrounds in schools across North America increasing, it is essential now more than ever for teachers to understand the needs of learners of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ethnic heritages. Defining heritage language (HL) learners as those "who have acquired their cultural or linguistic competence in a nondominant language primarily through contact at home with foreign born parents and/or other family members" (p. 3), the editors maintain that foreign language education for HL and non-HL learners differs in significant ways. Focusing on current attempts to meet the needs of those of East Asian ancestry learning their ancestral language while residing in the West, this volume concentrates on three themes: curricular needs, teaching materials, and assessment. After summarizing how each is addressed, I will evaluate the volume as a whole.