4 panels were led by veteran heritage educators and fostered group discussions between current and pre-service teacher participants.
Panel #1:
Overcoming Challenges in Heritage Learner Education
Dr. Jeffrey Levi Palmer is a researcher at the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes. His research examines understudied bilinguals, such as heritage bimodal bilinguals and visual-gestural unimodal bilinguals.
He has taught linguistics and language acquisition to deaf postsecondary students both face-to-face and online.
He has worked as a professional sign language interpreter and he is on the Test Development Committee for the Center for Assessment of Sign Language Interpretation and is vice chair of Deaf-Parented Interpreters with the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.
Valerie García graduated from City College of San Francisco with her Associate Degree in Humanities & Art and from Boston University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics & Spanish.
She is currently completing her Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research interests include Heritage Language Education, Language Teacher Preparation, and Heritage Language Identity.
Anna Lee
Anna Lee is a rising fourth-year undergraduate student at Grinnell College. Her heritage language is Korean, and she is trying to get involved with teaching in the alternative language study program (ALSO) at my institution and is interested in learning about heritage language education so she can apply this to teaching through the ALSO program.
Katherin Roxana Montes Chamorro
Katherin Montes is a past Fulbright scholar who worked as a foreign language teaching assistant in Quechua.
She is currently a master’s student in the hydrology concentration at Missouri University of Science Technology, and an English-French interpretation and translation student at the Margarita Cabrera Manzur School in Lima, Perú.
