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Heritage Language Academy: impacting families and children in culturally relevant ways

Heritage Language Academy: impacting families and children in culturally relevant ways. Jordi and Josie Roman Asheboro City Schools. HLA. . History. Joint collaboration Between UNCG’s TESOL for ALL program and ACS 3 rd year @ Donna Lee Loflin Elementary 1 st year @ Guy B. Teachey

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Heritage Language Academy: impacting families and children in culturally relevant ways

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  1. Heritage Language Academy: impacting families and children in culturally relevant ways Jordi and Josie Roman Asheboro City Schools

  2. HLA.

  3. History • Joint collaboration Between UNCG’s TESOL for ALL program and ACS • 3rd year @ Donna Lee Loflin Elementary • 1st year @ Guy B. Teachey • Eight Saturdays from 9.30 to 11.30am • “Parents as Teachers” component added this year

  4. Mission of the Heritage Language Academy Provide students with tools to increase literacy in the native language ( Spanish) and in English

  5. Missions of the Heritage Language Academy To provide HLA parents with the skills/ tools to understand their children’s curriculum and to become partners in learning 21st century skills.

  6. HL learners(Valdés 2000, Carreira & Kagan 2007) • Have good oral comprehension of the language • May be able to speak the language to different degrees • Have good pronunciation • Have lexical gaps • Make grammatical errors • Poor to minimal reading and writing skills • Self-identify with their ethnic community • Have a strong interest in learning more about their language

  7. In Action

  8. What do they think?

  9. Special Thanks to :Dr. LevinDr. JaneDr. PratterDr. Frost Dr. HarperMrs. VanderburghMrs. CallTeachers, Parents and Students

  10. Thank you

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