Linguistic and Language Education approaches to the concept of Heritage Language

a pluridisciplinary discussion about the profile of Portuguese heritage speakers living in Germany

Authors

  • Cristina Flores Universidade do Minho
  • Silvia Melo-Pfeifer CIDTFF - Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) Universität Leipzig (alemanha)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/DLesp-v8n3a2014-3

Keywords:

Heritage language, Heritage speaker, Pluridisciplinary approach

Abstract

The present study is based upon the observation that the research fields of Linguistics and Language Education focus on the concept of heritage language, based on different heuristic and conceptual instruments, approaching aspects of language acquisition, use and maintenance in a differentiated (but complementary) manner. In this paper we aim at discussing points of contact between both research fields, by focusing on the same corpus of oral interviews to heritage speakers of European Portuguese, which were carried out in extra-curricular courses of Portuguese heritage language programs in Germany. Our analysis brings to a focus the particularities of heritage language development in a migration context, from both a linguistic and pedagogical perspective.

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Author Biographies

Cristina Flores, Universidade do Minho

Cristina Flores é Professora Auxiliar do Departamento de Estudos Germanísticos e Eslavos da Universidade do Minho. Doutorou-se em Ciências da Linguagem / Linguística Alemã pela Universidade do Minho. As suas princiapais áreas de investigação são o bilinguismo, a aquisição de L2, a linguística alemã e o Português Língua Não Materna.

Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, CIDTFF - Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) Universität Leipzig (alemanha)

Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer (smelo@ua.pt) é doutorada em Didáctica de Línguas, pela Universidade de Aveiro. Desenvolveu um projecto de pós-doutoramento no LIDILEM (Laboratório de Investigação em Didáctica da Língua Materna e Estrangeira), na Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 (França), e no Departamento de Didáctica e Tecnologia Educativa, da Universidade de Aveiro.

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Published

2014-09-20

How to Cite

FLORES, C.; MELO-PFEIFER, S. Linguistic and Language Education approaches to the concept of Heritage Language: a pluridisciplinary discussion about the profile of Portuguese heritage speakers living in Germany. Domínios de Lingu@gem, Uberlândia, v. 8, n. 3, p. 16–45, 2014. DOI: 10.14393/DLesp-v8n3a2014-3. Disponível em: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/24736. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.