ABSTRACT
Russian as a Heritage Language: From Research to Classroom Applications brings together linguistically and pedagogically oriented research traditions in a comprehensive review of current Russian heritage language (HL) studies.
Divided into three parts, the collection offers a variety of frameworks and approaches spanning research on HL speakers’ linguistic and pragmatic competence, literacy development, and sociocultural characteristics of Russian in diaspora. Presenting a wide range of new empirical findings, the volume explores topics at the forefront of HL studies, from assessment of HL learners’ linguistic competence and language attitudes to research on communities and institutional affordances impacting HL acquisition and maintenance. Each chapter connects current research with specific classroom applications, presenting Russian as a global language in various sociopolitical and majority-language contexts.
Combining methodological rigor with theoretical insights across diverse areas of language study, Russian as a Heritage Language advances the field of HL pedagogy and serves as essential reading for HL educators and researchers as well as for linguists studying bilingualism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|21 pages
Russian as a Heritage Language in the 21st Century
part 1|92 pages
Understanding Heritage Russian Speakers' Linguistic and Pragmatic Competence
chapter Chapter 2|21 pages
Linguistic Knowledge and Proficiency Assessment in Heritage and L2 Russian
chapter Chapter 3|26 pages
Phonetic Production of Heritage Russian Speakers in Finland
chapter Chapter 4|27 pages
Forms of Address in Heritage Russian in Germany
part 2|68 pages
Literacy Development in Heritage Russian Learners
chapter Chapter 6|22 pages
Writing Proficiency Development in Learners of Russian as a Heritage Language in the Netherlands
chapter Chapter 8|18 pages
What Eye Movements Can Tell Us about Reading in Russian as a Heritage Language
part 3|93 pages
Russian in Diaspora