Volume 4, Number 2 Fall 2008 IN THIS ISSUE TEACHER To TEACHER CURRENT RESEARCH The Expanded Output Hypothesis by R. Joseph Ponniah & Stephen Krashen........ 2 Bridging the Cultural Divide: Korean Americans Visit Their Heritage Homeland by Grace Cho.................................................. 4 Personal theories of language acquisition among heritage language speakers by Grace Cho & Stephen Krashen................ 12 Heritage Language Development: Exhortation or Good Stories? by Christy Lao & Stephen Krashen ............... 17 Do Students Like What is Good for Them? An Investigation of the Pleasure Hypothesis with Middle School Students of Mandarin by Christy Lao & Stephen Krashen .............. 19 VOA Special English – A Neglected Multimodal Resource by Bill Templer ............................................... 21 Improving Language Acquisition as an Adult. An informal list of brainstorms by Jason Fritze, Stephen Krashen and Karen Rowan ....................................................................... 35 What are you reading right now? by Linda Li and Kirstin Plante..................... 38 Access to Books and a Quiet Comfortable Place to Read: A Practical Guide to Establishing a Free Voluntary Reading Program by Jason Fritze and Karen Rowan ..................39 Links and Resources .................................... 41 IJFLT: A free on-line, peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to communicating research, articles and helpful information regarding language acquisition to support teachers as they endeavor to create fluent, multilingual students. Research Index • Teacher-to-Teacher Index • Submission Info • Contact Us • Subscription Info Page 1 The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching © Fall 2008