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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)

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.

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)

No abstract provided.

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.

“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 …

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.

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 …

Biographical Indexicality In Comunidades Hispanas, Whitney Chappell

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

No abstract provided.

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.

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 …

Antes Muerta Que Sencilla: Language And The Construction Of Feminine Beauty In The Spanish-Speaking World, Eva Michelle Wheeler

International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest

Much has been written on the topic of feminine beauty, and existing studies suggest that ideas about beauty are a powerful cultural mirror that reveal what we value as a society and how we are valued by society (e.g., Etcoff 1999; Rhodes 2006; Whitefield-Madrano 2016; Wolf 2002). Despite critical advances made in beauty research, few existing studies in this area explicitly examine the lexicon of beauty as a critical site of analysis (e.g., Démuth et al. 2022; Gladkova 2021; Gladkova & Romero-Trillo 2021; Miller & Stevens 2021; Tayebi 2021; Wong & Or 2021). In the context of Spanish, no existing …

Discursive Variation In Texas Spanish: A Dialectometric Approach, James Ramsburg

International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest

Texas Spanish has been characterized from a variety of perspectives, whether that be descriptively (Cardenas 1970), historically (Lipski 1988), and/or sociolinguistically (Chaston 1996, Martínez 2003, Bayley et al. 2012, Carter and Wolford 2016). However, to date, no study has sought to produce a dialectological account of Spanish discourse in Texas. By combining methods of quantitative and corpus linguistics, the present study seeks to investigate the dynamics of how Spanish discourse features, namely discourse markers and fillers, vary across multiple regions in Texas. To do so, this study utilizes a corpus of contemporary Texas Spanish (Bullock and Toribio 2013) and evaluates …

Language And Capital: Socioeconomic Status And Female Migrants’ Spanish And English Language Use And Attitudes, Patricia Macgregor-Mendoza

International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest

The use of Spanish and English and the attitudes held toward both languages in migrant communities provide insight into the tension between the new arrivals’ desire to retain cultural and linguistic ties to their homeland and their desire to assimilate to the language and culture of their new home. The immigration stream from Mexico, the origin of the largest number of US migrants, has diversified socioeconomically over the last few decades, however, the sociolinguistic research has not reflected this change. The present study examines the similarities and differences in the language use and attitudes of female migrants from Mexico that …