Prof. Olga Kagan

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  www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/2008/aug/25/heritage-class - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/25/2008    Last Visited: 8/25/2008  

  Heritage language is the language spoken fluently at home by someone who has little or no formal schooling in the language and therefore may have trouble reading and writing the language, said Olga Kagan, director of the UCLA Center for World Languages and the director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center.
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  This year, Kagan and the center received funding to program a "Persian for Persian Speakers" course after a grant was received from the National Foreign Language Center, Kagan said.
  
  The Persian language course is taught by Shervin Emami and Saeid Atoofi, both UCLA doctoral students from Iran.
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  Kagan stressed the importance of programs that seek to preserve heritage languages, especially in light of the constant increases in immigration.
  
  "The 1990 and 2000 censuses have shown huge increases of immigration in the past 15 to 16 years," she said.
  
  "So we get a lot of children who have this wonderful knowledge from home of another language, and they come to school but the teaching methodology is not right for them."
  
  Students who speak a language at home cannot be taught the same way a foreign language student is taught, Kagan said.
  
  A foreign language course implies that the students are starting entirely from scratch, she said.
  
  But a heritage language course assumes the student has some experience with the language and requires different teaching methods, Kagain said.
  
  Especially in Los Angeles, a city home to a wide range of cultures, there is a great need for heritage language courses, she said.
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  If students are going to learn a language, it is helpful to begin at as young of an age as possible, Kagan said.
  
  "We are beginning to move toward high school, because it's important to start enforcing the language early," she said.

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  ww2.aatseel.org/AATSEEL/seej/seejanniversaryissue.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/1/2005    Last Visited: 4/10/2007  

  Olga Kagan and Kathleen Dillon.
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  His most recent projects are the Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series (at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) and a textbook (written with Olga Kagan), Advanced Russian through History (Yale UP).
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  Olga Kagan is Coordinator of the UCLA Slavic Department's Russian Language Program and Director of the UCLA Center for World Languages.She is the co-author of several Russian language textbooks, including V Puti (Prentice Hall, 1996, 2005), for second-year students.She has won two AATSEEL awards for Best Contribution to Pedagogy as co-author of Russian for Russians (Slavica, 2003), for heritage speakers of Russian, and as co-editor of The Teaching and Learning of Slavic Languages and Cultures (Slavica, 2000).Dr. Kagan is the co-editor of the Heritage Language Journal, an on-line, peer-reviewed journal focusing on heritage language knowledge and education.
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  With Olga Kagan, she has published numerous articles on heritage language issues and is the co-editor of the Heritage Language Journal.

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  The textbook is designed for children who already speak Russian at home as a "family language," a concept that was introduced several decades ago by Dr. Olga Kagan, a member of the group.

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  www.russkiymir.org/en/publications/interviews/index.php - [Cached Version]
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  One of the authors - Professor Olga Kagan - is a leading global authority in this field.

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  www.linglist.org/issues/19/19-2043.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/25/2008    Last Visited: 8/9/2008  

  Editor: Olga Kagan

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  www.bruinmarketplace.com/news/2008/aug/25/heritage-clas - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/25/2008    Last Visited: 8/29/2008  

  Heritage language is the language spoken fluently at home by someone who has little or no formal schooling in the language and therefore may have trouble reading and writing the language, said Olga Kagan, director of the UCLA Center for World Languages and the director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center.
  ...
  This year, Kagan and the center received funding to program a "Persian for Persian Speakers" course after a grant was received from the National Foreign Language Center, Kagan said.
  
  The Persian language course is taught by Shervin Emami and Saeid Atoofi, both UCLA doctoral students from Iran.
  
  The goal of the summer program is to encourage young United States immigrants to preserve and study their native language.
  
  "Heritage learners or speakers of a language in addition to English have always been multiplying in this country, because it's built on immigration and you come here with a different language if you immigrate," Kagan said.
  
  Just because the primary language is English in the U.S., it does not mean languages should be forgotten, she said.
  
  Kagan stressed the importance of programs that seek to preserve heritage languages, especially in light of the constant increases in immigration.
  
  "The 1990 and 2000 censuses have shown huge increases of immigration in the past 15 to 16 years," she said.
  
  "So we get a lot of children who have this wonderful knowledge from home of another language, and they come to school but the teaching methodology is not right for them."
  
  Students who speak a language at home cannot be taught the same way a foreign language student is taught, Kagan said.
  
  A foreign language course implies that the students are starting entirely from scratch, she said.
  
  But a heritage language course assumes the student has some experience with the language and requires different teaching methods, Kagan said.
  
  Especially in Los Angeles, a city home to a wide range of cultures, there is a great need for heritage language courses, she said.
  ...
  If students are going to learn a language, it is helpful to begin at as young of an age as possible, Kagan said.
  
  "We are beginning to move toward high school, because it's important to start enforcing the language early," she said.

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  www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2009-07-28-voa50.c - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/28/2009    Last Visited: 7/29/2009  

  Heritage Language program director Olga Kagan says the youngsters are regenerating cultural roots that assimilation almost severed.

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  Olga Kagan (UCLA)

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  Published on: 1/1/2001    Last Visited: 6/5/2009  

  Olga Kagan, University of California, Los Angeles

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  2007 Conference Program - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/26/2007    Last Visited: 1/9/2008  

  Panelist: Olga Kagan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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  Olga Kagan, UCLA (Screen)
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  Panelist: Olga Kagan, UCLA and Elena Boudovskaia, UCLA

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