SCHEDULE

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

    Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB
8:00  
Registration (8:30 – 12:00) Lobby of Foreign Languages Building
9:00   (9:00-9:15) Opening Remarks from Steven Poulos
 

(9:15-9:45) Nayoung Kwon and Maria Polinsky

"Heritage Language Retention: A Quantitative Study"

 
 

(9:45-10:15) Vijay Gambhir

"Curricular Models for Teaching Heritage & Non-heritage Learner"

10:00  
 

(10:15 - 10:45) Rakesh Ranjan

"Heritage Learners: Where to pitch the ball?"

 
 
11:00  

(11:00 - 12:00)

Plenary: Silvina Montrul

"Who are heritage speakers and what do they know?"

 
 
 
12:00   (12:00 - 1:00) Lunch
1:00   (1:00 - 1:30 Herman van Olphen

"Teaching Hindi in the U.S.: the shift in paradigm from non-heritage to heritage learners"

 
  (1:30 - 2:00) Rajesh Kumar

‘Learner Challenges of Heritage Language Speakers’

 
2:00  

(2:00 - 2:30) Gabriela Nik. Ilieva

‘Fossilization in Hindi: Avoiding and/or Undoing It’

 
 

(2:30 - 3:00) Sankaran Radhakrishnan

‘ Heritage and non-Heritage learning: Teaching Learning Challenges-LCTLs ’

 
3:00  

(3:00 - 3:30) Vasu Renganathan

‘Pedagogical Relevancy of online Hindi Materials’

 
  (3:30 - 4:00) Closing Remarks