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Book SynopsisAn increasing number of U.S. Latinos are seeking to become more proficient in Spanish. The Spanish they may have been exposed to in childhood may not be sufficient when they find themselves as adults in more demanding environments, academic or professional. Heritage language learners appear in a wide spectrum of proficiency, from those who have a low level of speaking abilities, to those who may have a higher degree of bilingualism, but not fluent. Whatever the individual case may be, these heritage speakers of Spanish have different linguistic and pedagogical needs than those students learning Spanish as a second or foreign language.
The members of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) have identified teaching heritage learners as their second greatest area of concern (after proficiency testing). Editors Ana Roca and Cecilia Colombi saw a great need for greater availability and dissemination of scholarly research in applied linguistics and p
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Mi lengua is a valuable collection that can serve not only professors and future researchers in the field of teaching Spanish to bilingual speakers, but also students in the area of political reform (reforms surrounding inherited language), interested in making new proposals or in disseminating new pedagogies. Estudios de linguistica aplicada Provides credible research and sound pedagogical strategies for addressing the education of the ever-increasing numbers of Spanish heritage language speakers in the United States. Its publication is timely and it should be required reading for all people who currently teach Spanish or plan to teach it in the future. Language Problems and Language Planning
Table of Contents
ForewordGuadalupe Valdes1. Insights form Research and Practice in Spanish as a Heritage LanguageM. Cecilia Colombi and Ana RocaPart I Spanish as a Heritage LanguageTheoretical Considerations 2. Toward a Theory of Heritage Language AcquisitionSpanish in the United StatesAndrew Lynch3. Profiles of SNS Students in the Twenty-First CenturyPedagogical Implications of the Changing Demographics and Social Status of U.S. HispanicsMaria M. Carreira4. Un enfoque funcional para la ensenanza del ensayo expositivo'Revitalizacion o erradicacion de la variedad chicana?Ysaura Bernal-Enriquez and Eduardo Hernandez ChavezPart II Community and Classroom-Based Research StudiesImplications for Instruction K-16 6. "Spanish in My Blood"Children's Spanish Language Development in Dual-Language Immersion ProgramsErnestina Pesina Hernandez, Hinako Takahashi-Breines, and Rebecca Blum-Martinez7. Minority Perspectives on LanguageMexican and Mexican-American Adolescents' Attitudes toward Spanish and EnglishKaren Beckstead and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio8. META: A Model for the Continued Acquisition of Spanish by Spanish/English Bilinguals in the United StatesRoberto Luis Carrasco and Florencia Riegelhaupt9. La ensenanza del espanol a los hispanohablantes bilingues y su efecto en la produccion oralMarta Fairclough and N. Ariana Mrak10. Academic Registers in Spanish in the U.S.A Study of Oral Texts Produced by Bilingual Speakers in a University Graduate ProgramMariana Achugar11. !No me suena!Heritage Spanish Speakers' Writing StrategiesAna Maria Schwartz12. Navegando a traves del registro formalCurso para hispanohablantes bilinguesRebeca Acevedo13. Spanish Print EnvironmentsImplications for Heritage Language DevelopmentSandra Liliana PucciContributors Index
