OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 62544

heritage speaker

Meanings (ES + gloss)
hablante hereditario • hablante patrimonial • hablante por herencia
Someone who speaks a heritage language (“a minority language that one acquires as a first language but uses and/or is exposed to less later in life”).
At UCLA, which is emerging as a leader in the field, separate classes already are available for heritage speakers of Chinese, Korean, Russian and Spanish.
Kagan's survey of California college students found many "heritage speakers" wished to study their home language at school to connect with their culture, build their literacy, and…
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