Heritage language Learner Needs, Inclusion and Diversity

• Main Authors: Shanthi, Nadarajan, Mary Fatimah, Subet, Dayang Sariah, Abang Suhai
• Format: Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2015
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6600/1/Heritage%20language.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6600/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Children learn language from their language experience (1). While much of knowledge is fundamentally non linguistic (2), the concepts have implicit networks of meanings which are formed through the experiences and practice of the external world and, (3) under certain circumstances, the non linguisti...