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Access the Experts: Laura Walls

In this installment, Walls answers “Are there any endangered languages that are good to learn, and how does one go about doing so?”

  • published: 2021/06/17
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Access the Experts is an innovative partnership between the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and News Channel Nebraska (NCN), where viewers submit their questions to be answered by UNO faculty members.

In This Installment of Access the Experts

Foreign Languages and Literature Associate Professor Laura Walls, Ph.D., answers the question: “Are there any endangered languages that are good to learn, and how does one go about doing so?”

About Walls

An expert in areas that include heritage language pedagogy, sociolinguistics, and conversation analysis, Walls holds a Ph.D. in applied linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles and master’s degree in Spanish from Stanford University. Courses she teaches include elementary Spanish. Her scholarship bridges the fields of sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and heritage language pedagogy.

Access the Experts

Access the Experts is an innovative partnership between the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and News Channel Nebraska (NCN), where viewers submit their questions to be answered by UNO faculty members.

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