BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6101ac87-37ca-450e-9c57-3fa2ff711d33.217703@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20210917T200037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T200037Z LOCATION:https://missouristate.zoom.us/j/2051462209 SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium Talk by Dr. Diego Pascual y Cabo DESCRIPTION:Understanding the Heritage Speaker and Why it Matters for the Future of Language Teaching\n\n\nPresented by Dr. Diego Pascual y Cabo\, assistant professor of hispanic linguistics and director of the Spanish H eritage Language Program\,  University of Florida\n\n\nIn the context of the United States\, recent (and not so recent) demographic changes have b rought about a substantial shift in the overall composition of the social \, cultural and linguistic landscape. And although English continues to b e the dominant language\, and in many cases the only societal language\, there are approximately 400 different so-called heritage languages also s poken in the home environment. \n\n\nHighlighting current understandings gained through theoretical and empirical findings\, Cabo will discuss wha t makes heritage languages and their speakers a unique and important bi/m ultilingual phenomenon to study\, to serve and to promote. Because of its prominence in the context of the U.S.\, the discussion will focus on Spa nish heritage speaker bilingualism\, but insights from other heritage lan guages will also be provided.\n\n\nJoin via Zoom. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p><s trong>Understanding the Heritage Speaker and Why it Matters for the Futur e of Language Teaching</strong></p>\n<p>Presented by Dr. Diego Pascual y Cabo\, assistant professor of hispanic linguistics and director of the Sp anish Heritage Language Program\,&nbsp\; University of Florida</p>\n<p>In the context of the United States\, recent (and not so recent) demographi c changes have brought about a substantial shift in the overall compositi on of the social\, cultural and linguistic landscape. And although Englis h continues to be the dominant language\, and in many cases the only soci etal language\, there are approximately 400 different so-called heritage languages also spoken in the home environment.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Highlightin g current understandings gained through theoretical and empirical finding s\, Cabo will discuss what makes heritage languages and their speakers a unique and important bi/multilingual phenomenon to study\, to serve and t o promote. Because of its prominence in the context of the U.S.\, the dis cussion will focus on Spanish heritage speaker bilingualism\, but insight s from other heritage languages will also be provided.</p>\n<p><a href="h ttps://missouristate.zoom.us/j/2051462209">Join via Zoom</a>.</p></body>< /html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211027T130000 SEQUENCE:2 URL:https://blogs.missouristate.edu/mcl/2021/09/16/linguistics-colloquia-f all-2021-series/ CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR