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Teaching Philosophy Classes In Spanish Or Bilingually In The South Texas Borderlands, Alex Stehn, Cynthia Paccacerqua, Danny Marrero, Christopher Gomez, Dania López García, Katherine Christoffersen

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

Situated in the deep south Texas borderlands, over 90% of our students are Hispanic or Latino/a/x and the majority are bilingual. That is, most students enrolled across every course at our university are heritage speakers of Spanish. As professional philosophers, we believe that teaching these students should involve engaging them as the bilingual and bicultural students they are while helping them develop philosophical biliteracy. Our panelists are from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds (native speaker, heritage speaker, L2 speaker) but all of us are bilingual, bicultural, and biliterate faculty who have been working together as a team to design and …

Spanish Rhotic Production And Dialectal Variation In Mexican Heritage Speakers, Ileana Perez

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

Spanish has two phonemic rhotics, the tap /ɾ/ and trill /r/, but these phonemic sounds present dialectal variation. Previous work has looked at variation and dialectal rhotics amongst monolingual speakers of Spanish, finding that, depending on their dialect, monolinguals can produce aspirated, assibilated, and fricated rhotics as well as lateralized and deleted rhotics (Bradley et al., 1999). Only one study has analyzed Heritage speakers’ rhotic variation and found that, Heritage speakers are able to produce dialectal rhotics such as the Mexican assibilated rhotic (Cummings Ruiz et al., 2020). In the current study, I build upon previous literature to further explore …

Aprendizajes Críticos. Vinculando Saberes Entre El Aula Universitaria Y La Comunidad Repatriada De Hablantes De Español Como Lengua Heredada, Valeria Valencia

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Culturally Rich Language Teaching Through Comics And Translation: Practical Lessons For The Heritage Language Classroom, Jorge M. Espinoza

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

Drawing from translation and sequential art theories as well as the author’s experience teaching Spanish through translation and comics, this presentation offers practical exercises teachers can use for their heritage and non-heritage students. Comics are helpful to deepen skills like proper use of register, tone, cognates, and cultural equivalents.

How Much Grammar Do Students Appreciate? A Case Study Of A Middle School Dual Immersion Program In San Antonio., Esther Hur, Rocio Ocon-Garrido

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

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Translation In The Linguistic Landscape Along The Us Border With Mexico, Gabriel González Núñez

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

Cities are the hubs of the modern world, and in border towns between states with different languages, these hubs are bilingual. Such bilingual towns offer opportunities to examine the extent to which translation, including the decision to not translate, plays a role in shaping the public spaces of cities (see González Núñez & Meylaerts). This presentation seeks to do that by relying on the methods developed for the study of the linguistic landscape (e.g., Landry & Bourhis). It will report on such a study as carried out in Brownsville, a city that sits on the Texas border with Mexico. The …

The Social Stratification Of Spanish Uptalk In The South Texas Border Town Of Laredo, Texas, Natalie Rangel

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

The Social Stratification of Spanish uptalk in the South Texas Border Town of Laredo, Texas

This study explores the sociolinguistic role of uptalk (also known as high rising terminals) in the local Spanish of Laredo, Texas. It particularly focuses on the interrelationship between uptalk, area of residence, and the self-identification as a fresa. High rising terminals (HRTs) are known to be characteristic to fresas, a Mexican cultural group that refers to individuals who belong to privileged social classes, live expensive lifestyles, and speak Spanish distinctively (Chaparro, 2016; Cordova Abundis & Corona Zenil, 2002; Martínez Gómez, 2018; Urteaga & Ortega, …

Traducción Literaria Y Bilingüismo: Una Propuesta Pedagógica Para Estudiantes De Herencia., Jovana Gomez, Francisco Gonzalez

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

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Exploring Spanish Heritage Speakers’ Coping Mechanisms To Manage Name-Based Microaggressions, Gabriela Rivera Marín, Patrick L. Grey, Melanie L. Delgado, Diego Pascual Y Cabo, Leire Echevarría Canal

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

Spanish Heritage Speakers (HSs) in the U.S. can be the target of indirect acts of discrimination related to their ethnolinguistic identity (Ayón & Philbin, 2017). Name-based microaggressions are subtle insults directed at marginalized groups or individuals as a reaction, often unconscious or automatic, to their given name. This can include mispronunciation, renaming practices or indexical bleaching of an ethnic name (i.e., Bucholtz, 2005; Ayón & Philbin, 2017). Although it may seem harmless to a casual observer, students exposed to name-related subtle discrimination can experience feelings of othering, hyper-awareness, and unconscious internalization of harmful racial ideologies directed towards their ethnoracial group …

Embracing Borderlands Identity: The Significance Of Latina Graduate Student Discourse In Academia, Jessica Corona, Emily Rodriguez, Elisa Castro

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

Latina students will share personal narratives, academic insights, and research experiences, to dissect how their identities influence their perspectives, research questions, and approaches to scholarship. This dialogue will contribute to deeper understanding of how students can approach the richness of Latinx experiences to challenge and reshape existing academic paradigms.

Recursos Educativos Abiertos (Rea) Para La Enseñanza De Español Como Lengua De Herencia: De La Búsqueda A La Creación, Jocelly G. Meiners, Flavia Belpoliti

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

En este taller, los participantes aprenderán sobre el valor y la utilidad de los REA y desarrollarán habilidades para identificar, evaluar e integrar distintos REA en sus cursos de español como lengua de herencia. El taller se enfocará en el proceso de búsqueda e implementación para finalizar con la creación de REA propios.

Antiracismo En La Clase De Hablantes De Herencia: Contextos, Reflexiones Y Estrategias Pedagógicas, María Datel

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

Este taller explora cómo abordar críticamente el tema del antirracismo en las aulas a través de actividades y materiales que permiten pensar el racismo desde una perspectiva contextual, reconociendo las diferencias y similitudes en sus manifestaciones a lo largo de Latinoamérica y comparándolas con las experiencias en Estados Unidos.

La Producción De Narraciones Multimedia Como Principio Estructurador Del Diseño Curricular Del Español Como Lengua De Herencia, Alexandra Rodriguez Sabogal

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

Basada en el diseño de la clase de “Español como lengua de herencia” (nivel avanzado), impartida en la primavera de 2021 y 2022, esta presentación analiza el proceso de producción de narraciones multimedia como principio estructurador para diseñar actividades pedagógicas que desarrollen competencias lingüísticas y culturales en el aula de clase. Además, se examina como, este proceso genera conciencia social en los aprendices, a partir del autodescubrimiento y de la reflexión crítica para encontrar soluciones a problemáticas sociales.

“Le Nom Es El Nombre Or The Last Name?” Translanguage Awareness In A French Class For Spanish Speakers, Robert Watson

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

The presentation draws on personal experience teaching French with Spanish as co-language of instruction with majority-Hispanic classes as well as the emergence of a Spanish-centered approach to Romance language instruction at Hispanic-serving institutions primarily in California (Martinez 2014) and more recently in Texas.

Exploring the advantages and difficulties of using Spanish as a “gateway language” (Donato 2018) alongside French in A1-level classes, the presentation will share the experiences of students enrolled in these classes who fall under various categories, including Heritage speakers and bilinguals.

The presentation will use interviews conducted with current and former students to explore the concept of …

Photo Essays: Multimodal Competence In The Shl Classroom, Flavia Belpoliti

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Perfil Sociolingüístico De Cinco Estudiantes De Español Como Lengua De Herencia De Origen Salvadoreño, Jose Esteban Hernández

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Approaches Of Digital Pedagogies For The Appreciation And Preservation Of Local Trans And Multilingual Cultural Heritages, Stephanie Gonzalez, Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, Glenn Martínez, Deeann Ivie

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

In an effort to provide culturally and linguistically relevant Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) programs in the United States, several language programs have turned to creating digital language learning and teaching materials using various data sources, digital tools, methodologies, cultural practices, digital humanities platforms and projects, as well as Open Educational Resources (OER). This facilitates innovative knowledge production that preserves local translingual and multilingual cultural heritages and identities of Spanish HLLs from multiracial backgrounds in the US in analog and online spaces. Current initiatives in multilingual, decolonial, postcolonial Digital Humanities (DH) are pushing back against the aporias in the …

Sociolinguistic Justice En La Comunidad: A Community Engagement Project Between University Heritage Speakers And High School Students, Ana Sánchez Muñoz

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

This paper presents a community engagement project that promotes social justice through language, by educating university HL speakers who, in turn, become teachers and mentors for high schoolers. The results show that students develop a better understanding of language diversity, ideologies, and attitudes as well as their own language practices.

Biographical Indexicality In Comunidades Hispanas, Whitney Chappell

11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Retórica Intercultural En El Discurso Académico Universitario: Las Funciones Retóricas De La Citación En Los Trabajos De Fin De Máster Escritos En Español Y En Inglés Por Hablantes Nativos Y No Nativos, David Sanchez-Jimenez

Publications and Research

This research derives from the interest in learning the cultural differences in citation practices in the academic genre of Master's thesis of native Spanish (Ee), non-native Filipino writers of Spanish (Fe), native Filipino writers of English (Fi), and American writers of English. A total of thirty-two (32) master´s theses – eight (8) for each group – were analyzed. A quantitative and qualitative methodology was used to study this phenomenon based on the computerized textual analysis of the rhetorical function of citations arranged in typological classification that modified the outline proposed by Petrić in his 2007 article. The results obtained from …