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Melissa Venegas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research investigated how a Critical Sociocultural Linguistics Literacy (CriSoLL) approach to authentic materials supports student literacy in a mixed Spanish heritage language (SHL) and additional language (L2) Spanish intermediate course at the university level. Using a qualitative approach (Cho, 2018; Esposito & Evans-Winters, 2021)…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Literacy, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Gabrielle Yocupicio – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explored the perspectives of stakeholders within a university-level Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) program in Arizona, focusing on their language ideologies and critical language education efforts. The study, rooted in Critical Language Awareness (CLA) and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) frameworks, challenges deficit-based…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Universities, Spanish, Native Language
Beaudrie, Sara M.; Loza, Sergio – Language Awareness, 2023
As Spanish heritage language (SHL) programs grow nationwide, SHL program directors (PD) are tasked with negotiating the intricacies of either building an SHL program from scratch or carving space for a program that, unlike second language (L2) programs, are not institutionalised. Considering the evidence of deeply embedded dominant language…
Descriptors: Spanish, Heritage Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
GoMee Park – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
As educators can open and close implementational and ideological spaces for bilingualism, they are language policy agents. Concurrently, their language ideologies are also informed and shaped by dominant discourses such as the discourse of accountability and neoliberalism. Inspired by ethnographic studies, this qualitative study explored the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Tests, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Burgo, Clara – AILA Review, 2023
Latinx who do not feel confident speaking Spanish are usually questioned. To fight these ideologies, Pascual and Cabo and Prada (2018) suggest new pedagogical approaches to incorporate in the curriculum the experiences of the heritage language learner (HLL). Latinx in higher education expect a culturally relevant curriculum to critically listen…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics, Heritage Education
Stavans, Anat; Ashkenazi, Maya – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Spanish in Israel has been the heritage language (HL) of some 130,000 Spanish speakers. The uniqueness of this immigrant community lays in the evolution, existence and maintenance of Spanish as the (HL). This study showcases Spanish speakers as an example of a well-integrated minority. The results of this study showed that the two first…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Yakushkina, Maria – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
In a present-day global world, immigrant communities manage multiple cultural and linguistic contexts. To better understand these cross-cultural connections, and bridge the fields of linguistics and transnationalism, the present study analyzes the interconnection between language use and symbolic transnationalism among heritage speakers of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Cubans, Biculturalism, Spanish
Marichal, Nidza; Roldán, Arelis Rosario; Coady, Maria – Rural Educator, 2021
This paper describes the personal and professional journey taken by one secondary Spanish teacher to implement the Seal of Biliteracy (SoBL) for English Learners (ELs) in a rural Florida school district. The teacher's goal was to promote bilingual pride among her ELs and to validate and build their bilingual abilities, which had been frequently…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Literacy, Bilingualism, School Districts
Nee, Julia – L2 Journal, 2020
In this paper, I examine the development, implementation, and results of utilizing three types of storybooks in a language revitalization classroom for students ages 5-12 learning Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec, an indigenous language of southern Mexico. Although each method used for creating books in Zapotec generated a positive reaction from…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indian Students, Native Language Instruction, Student Developed Materials
Prada, Josh – Classroom Discourse, 2019
The present study explores how translanguaging serves as vehicle to (help) re-configure linguistic attitudinal and ideological structures in a university Spanish course for heritage speakers. Specifically, it focuses on the links between exposure to (and engagement in) classroom translanguaging and the participants' challenging of traditional…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Attitudes, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage
Morita-Mullaney, Trish; Chesnut, Colleen – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Indiana dual-language immersion (DLI) programs have grown exponentially in the last 5 years as a result of state policies, related state funding, and increasing pressure for public schools to have a specialized presence amidst school choice provisions. Principals work with their communities to identify the DLI model they will adopt, student…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Immersion Programs, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Burns, Katharine E. – L2 Journal, 2018
The United States is one of the world's most populous Hispanophone countries, with over 35 million Spanish-speakers. In addition, Spanish is the most widely taught foreign language in the United States, with more students enrolled in Spanish at the higher-education level than in all other modern languages combined. How, then, is the United States'…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
Hudgens Henderson, Mary; Wilson, Damián Vergara; Woods, Michael R. – Hispania, 2020
This study investigates correlations of course level, gender, and ethnic identity labels with attitudinal dimensions toward Spanish by Spanish as a Heritage Language Learners in New Mexico. Participants in first-semester (n = 327) and fourth-semester (n = 174) Spanish as a Heritage Language courses rated twelve items designed to index language…
Descriptors: Spanish, Heritage Education, Self Concept, Hispanic American Students
Dual-Language Engagement: Concerted Cultivation of Spanish Use among Students, Teachers, and Parents
Prado, Yenda; Ramos, Michelle N.; Peña, Elizabeth; Zavala, Jenny – Bilingual Research Journal, 2022
Exploring parent, student, and teacher language moves is essential to develop and implement strategies that cultivate Spanish use in support of dual-language engagement. We used Lareau's concerted cultivation framework to explore language use at a K-8 dual-language immersion school. A case-study design integrating content analysis was used to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Teachers, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Román, Diego; Pastor, Alberto; Basaraba, Deni – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
This study examined the presence of internal linguistic discrimination--i.e., the negative reaction of Spanish speakers towards the varieties of Spanish spoken by heritage speakers--among bilingual teachers in a school district in Texas. To this end, we conducted a study that analyzed the responses of 84 bilingual teachers to audio utterances…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Spanish Speaking, Spanish, Language Variation