Pona Tran - High Tech, High Touch

A LIVE Talk as part of The Lingua-Cultura Experience Series at Polyglot Conference Global 2021
Full Title: High Tech, High Touch: Technology's Contribution to Family Ties and Heritage Language Preservation
In this storytelling session, Pona Tran, a Chinese Canadian educator, shares how the evolution of basic technology has helped her immigrant family regain connections to relatives, and how it has supported her efforts to preserve her heritage language. When her family members first immigrated to Canada in the late 1980s, the only ways to reconnect with family "back home" were calling cards and letters. But with time, correspondence slows down, and connections may be lost. In his late 60s, Pona's father learned to use social media to reconnect with his family in Vietnam, who speak Teochew (a dialect of Chinese). Technology has helped the extended family remain close despite geographic, linguistic, and cultural barriers, and acts as a bridge to preserve their heritage language overseas.
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