One of the challenges for language study and revitalisation has been generational connections: users and learners, speakers and acquirers, cultural insiders and entrants. Few studies have systematically investigated these critical relationships and their effects on learning, identity and community formation. This book is an important instalment in how to validate and benefit from intergenerational community resources, giving meaning and depth ... Read moreto the adjective 'community' or 'heritage' qualifying the noun `languages'.
Joseph Lo Bianco, The University of Melbourne, Australia
This deeply humane and well-informed study of students learning a new language from older adults of other cultures has broad implications for education, research and social policy. It shows how one human interaction at a time can enrich individuals' development, bring people of different ages and cultural backgrounds into mutually supportive relationships and, ultimately, create an inclusive society.
Linda Tickle-Degnen, Tufts University, USA
The project this book presents is a rare and beautiful combination of high-quality inter-disciplinary research coupled with a genuine desire to foster cross-cultural and intergenerational understanding in an innovative model of socially inclusive second language learning.
Eva Eppler, University of Roehampton, UK
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