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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 2009, 20th Annual JWP ConferenceApr 18th, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMHeritage Language Maintenance: A Study ofCentral Illinois Teacher AttitudesHillary Sellers, '09Illinois Wesleyan UniversityChristina Isabelli, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Hillary Sellers, '09 and Christina Isabelli, Faculty Advisor, "Heritage Language Maintenance: A Study of Central IllinoisTeacher Attitudes" (April 18, 2009). John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference. Paper 2.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2009/oralpres5/2THE JOHN WESLEY POWELL STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE - APRIL 2009 Oral Presentation 05.2 HERITAGE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE: A STUDY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS TEACHER ATTITUDES Hillary Sellers and Christina Isabelli * Hispanic Studies Department, Illinois Wesleyan University This article presents a study of teachers' attitudes toward students' maintenance of the home language, and also examines concordance of these attitudes with teacher practices when dealing with language minority students. The sample consisted of 48 teachers with varying levels of experience teaching language minority students. Participants were recruited from two school districts in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, and were asked to complete an online questionnaire. In a 2006 study carried out in California, Lee and Oxelson found that teachers who taught in a bilingual or ESL classroom and teachers that had experience with a language other than English had more positive attitudes toward bilingualism and heritage language maintenance.  This study replicates Lee and Oxelson's survey and will determine whether the fIndings maintain their validity in this Central Illinois community. Lee, J., & Oxelson, E. (2006). "It's not my job" :  K-12 teacher attitudes toward students' heritage language maintenance. Bilingual Research Journal, 30(2), 453-477. 

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