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Reilly, Tarey – 1988
Human beings have as great a capacity for losing or forgetting a language as they do for learning one. Many have lost language skills due to a lack of a linguistically appropriate environment in which to use a particular language. Millions of individuals who have studied a second language in high school or college for several years have lost the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Design
Lewelling, Vickie W.; Peyton, Joy Kreeft – 1999
This digest focuses on teaching Spanish to native or Hispanic heritage language students in the United States. Heritage language students are students who speak another language (in this case Spanish) as their first language either because they were born in another country or because their families speak another language at home. The entrance of…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Heritage Education, Higher Education, Hispanic Americans