Talk
Heritage speakers of Latvian in Germany: language biographies and language skills
Around 27,000 Latvian citizens are registered as living in Germany, and some of their children grow up with Latvian at home and German almost everywhere else. This can lead to inherently different language skills, even among speakers of the same background. My bachelor’s thesis will ask how language biography and language skills are connected for Latvian heritage speakers in Germany. How they came to speak Latvian, how they it today and how well they handle it. I will collect data with a cloze test and a questionnaire on their language biography.