Volume 8, Numbers 2&3, 2005

Nancy H. Hornberger

Heritage/Community Language Education: US and Australian Perspectives.......101

Helen Borland

Heritage Languages and Community Identity Building: The Case of a Language of Lesser Status.......109

Anne Pauwels

Maintaining the Community Language in Australia: Challenges and Roles for Families.......124

Richard B. Baldauf

Coordinating Government and Community Support for Community Language Teaching in Australia: Overview with Special Attention to New South Wales.......132

Antonio Mercurio and Angela Scarino

Heritage Languages at Upper Secondary Level in South Australia: A Struggle for Legitimacy.......145

Christine Nicholls

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Indigenous Language Bilingual Education Programmes in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1972–1998.......160

Michèle de Courcy

Policy Challenges for Bilingual and Immersion Education in Australia: Literacy and Language Choices for Users of Aboriginal Languages, Auslan and Italian.......178

G. Richard Tucker

Innovative Language Education Programmes for Heritage Language Students: The Special Case of Puerto Ricans?.......188

Catherine Elder

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Heritage Language Education: What Role for Testing?.......196

Olga Kagan

In Support of a Proficiency-based Definition of Heritage Language Learners: The Case of Russian.......213

Terrence G. Wiley

Discontinuities in Heritage and Community Language Education: Challenges for Educational Language Policies.......222

Book Reviews

Dynamics of Language Contact.......230

French in and out of France. Language Policies, Intercultural Antagonisms and Dialogue.......233

Bilingualism: Beyond Basic Principles.......238

Investigating Language Attitudes : Social Meanings of Dialect, Ethnicity, and Performance.......243

Effects of the Second Language on the First.......245

Transcending Monolingualism, Linguistic Revitalisation in Education.......249