ForewordAna Roca Introduction: Heritage language education in the United States Marta Fairclough & Sara BeaudriePart I. Foundations in Heritage Language Teaching: Essential Notions in Curricula, Teacher, and Program Development1. Towards a Prototype Model of the Heritage Language Learner: Understanding Strengths and Needs Eve Zykik2. Goals and Beyond in Heritage Language Education: From Competencies to Capabilities Glenn Martinez3. Sociolinguistics for Heritage Language Educators and Students: A Model for Critical Translingual Competence Jennifer Leeman and Ellen J. Serafini4. Building a Heritage Language Program: Guidelines for a Collaborative ApproachSara M. Beaudrie5. Teacher Development in Heritage Language Education Manel Lacorte Part II. Strategies, Techniques, and Approaches in Heritage Language Teaching6. Supporting Heritage Language Learners through Macrobased Teaching: Foundational Principles and Implementation Strategies for Heritage Language and Mixed Classes Maria Carreira 7. Incorporating Additional Varieties to the Linguistic Repertoires of Heritage Language Learners: A Multidialectal ModelMarta Fairclough8. Critical Approaches to Heritage Language Instruction: How to Foster Students' Critical ConsciousnessMaria Luisa Parra9. Designing Meaning in Inherited Languages: A 'Multiliteracies' Approach to HL Instruction Malena Samaniego and Chantelle Warner10. Heritage Language Learner Assessment: Towards Proficiency Standards Gabriela Nik. Ilieva & Beth Clark-Gareca11. Technology-Enhanced Heritage Language Instruction: Best Tools and Best Practices Florencia Henshaw Afterword: Curricularizing Language: Implications for Heritage Language InstructionGuadalupe Valdes List of ContributorsIndex