[MGSA-L] Book Launch Event at York University

[Themis Aravossitas]

	You are invited to the Book Launch Handbook of Research and Practice in
Heritage Language Education, published by Springer International Handbooks
of Education, 2018 (Please see invitation attached). 
	Date/Time: Monday 26 February 2018, 16:00-18:00

	Venue: Founders Senior Common Room FC 305, York University, Toronto

	Sponsored by: The Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair of Modern Greek
History-York University, Founders College and Department of Languages,
Literatures and linguistics, York University
About this book: The volume, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas
(OISE/University of Toronto) and Themistoklis Aravossitas  (DLLL/York
University & CERES/University of Toronto), covers the multidimensional and
international field of Heritage Language Education, including concepts,
practices, and the correlation between culture and language from the
perspectives of pedagogy and research. Heritage Language Learning is a new
dimension in both the linguistic and pedagogic sciences and is linked to
processes of identity negotiation and cultural inheritance. Heritage
languages play an important role ensuring the balance between coherence and
pluralism in contemporary societies that have come to realize that
diversity is an advantage for social, cultural, and economic reasons. 
The volume includes topics like First Nation indigenous languages,
languages in diaspora, immigrant and minority languages, and contributions
from North, central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
It addresses the social, linguistic, and cultural issues in educational
contexts in a new way by taking up questions of globalization, difference,
community, identity, democracy, ethics, politics, technology, language
rights and cultural policies through the evolving field of Heritage
Language Education.
	The handbook includes several Greek-context chapters: 

	-Identity, Language, and Language Policies in the Diaspora:
Historical-Comparative Approach
(https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_9-1)
by Michael Damanakis

	-Heritage Language Learners in Mixed University Classes: Language Skills,
Attitudes, and Implications for Curriculum Development
(https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_3-3),
by Marianthi Oikonomakou, Themistoklis Aravossitas, and Eleni Skourtou

	-Professional Development of Heritage Language Instructors: Profiles,
Needs, and Course Evaluation
(https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_2-1)
by Themistoklis Aravossitas, Marianthi Oikonomakou

	-Twice a Foreigner in a Foreign Land: Dispute and Identity Assertion Among
Expatriate Students in Germany, Based on Language and Origin
(https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_20-1)
by Thomas K. Babalis, Panagiota Kalakou
	-Bilingualism in Younger Generation of Greek Orthodox Community in
Istanbul: The Language Use of Greek and Turkish Languages in Greek Minority
Educational Institutions
(https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_30-1)
by Maria (Rika) Rompopoulou
	-Language and Ethnicity
(https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_37-1)
by Michail Vitopoulos

	-Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Modeling Teachers’ Professional
Learning to Advance Plurilingualism
(https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_4-1)
by Eugenia Arvanitis

	-Parents-Schools’ Communication and Albanian as a Heritage Language in
Greece
(https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_1-1)
by George Androulakis, Anastasia Gkaintartzi, Roula Kitsiou, Sofia Tsioli

	-Unacknowledged Negotiations: Bilingual Students Report on How They
Negotiate Their Languages Within the Monolingual Primary School System in
Cyprus
(https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_11-1)
by Katherine Fincham-Louis
	Themistoklis Aravossitas, PhD
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	Course Director-Modern Greek Language & Culture
	141 Founders College 
	Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics
	York University
	Email: travoss at yorku.ca


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