The Role of Literacy in Heritage Language Acquisition - literature review

Heritage bilinguals are speakers who acquire a minority (heritage) language at home (typically from birth), in addition to the language of the majority, which they are exposed to either from birth or later in childhood; usually through education (Rothman, 2009;Montrul, 2016).The population of heritage speakers is characterised by heterogeneity and diverse linguistic skills, especially in the heritage language (HL).