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New directions in heritage language pedagogy

Community service-learning for Spanish heritage speakers
  • Kelly Lowther Pereira
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Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language
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Abstract

This chapter discusses how community service-learning (CSL) meets specific pedagogical challenges in Spanish heritage language (SHL) education. The integration of community service with academic instruction enhances student academic and civic learning and simultaneously strengthens communities. This chapter presents the multiple ways student CSL experiences can contribute to heritage language (HL) and cultural development, such as fostering positive identities and relationships with local communities, raising awareness of sociolinguistic and sociopolitical issues, developing language skills, career and professional goals, among others. The chapter provides a how-to guide for instructors to successfully design a course that takes advantage of all CSL has to offer to both HL learners and communities.

Abstract

This chapter discusses how community service-learning (CSL) meets specific pedagogical challenges in Spanish heritage language (SHL) education. The integration of community service with academic instruction enhances student academic and civic learning and simultaneously strengthens communities. This chapter presents the multiple ways student CSL experiences can contribute to heritage language (HL) and cultural development, such as fostering positive identities and relationships with local communities, raising awareness of sociolinguistic and sociopolitical issues, developing language skills, career and professional goals, among others. The chapter provides a how-to guide for instructors to successfully design a course that takes advantage of all CSL has to offer to both HL learners and communities.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgements ix
  4. Introduction
  5. Charting the past, present, and future of Spanish heritage language research 1
  6. Unit 1: Formal approaches to Spanish as a Heritage Language
  7. Formal linguistic approaches to heritage language acquisition 13
  8. A new look at heritage Spanish and its speakers 27
  9. On the nuclear intonational phonology of heritage speakers of Spanish 51
  10. Relative clause attachment preferences in early and late Spanish-English bilinguals 81
  11. Losing your case? Dative experiencers in Mexican Spanish and heritage speakers in the United States 99
  12. Unit 2: Educational approaches to Spanish as a heritage language
  13. Current issues in Spanish heritage language education 127
  14. Advances in Spanish heritage language assessment 143
  15. A general framework and supporting strategies for teaching mixed classes 159
  16. Understanding identity among Spanish heritage learners 177
  17. Heritage language healing? Learners’ attitudes and damage control in a heritage language classroom 205
  18. Unit 3: Future lines of development in heritage language education
  19. Emerging trends with heritage language instructional practices 221
  20. New directions in heritage language pedagogy 237
  21. Heritage language learning in study abroad 259
  22. Online courses for heritage learners 281
  23. Flipping the classroom 299
  24. Afterword
  25. Looking ahead 325
  26. Author Index 347
  27. Subject Index 351
https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.49.13low

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Acknowledgements ix
  4. Introduction
  5. Charting the past, present, and future of Spanish heritage language research 1
  6. Unit 1: Formal approaches to Spanish as a Heritage Language
  7. Formal linguistic approaches to heritage language acquisition 13
  8. A new look at heritage Spanish and its speakers 27
  9. On the nuclear intonational phonology of heritage speakers of Spanish 51
  10. Relative clause attachment preferences in early and late Spanish-English bilinguals 81
  11. Losing your case? Dative experiencers in Mexican Spanish and heritage speakers in the United States 99
  12. Unit 2: Educational approaches to Spanish as a heritage language
  13. Current issues in Spanish heritage language education 127
  14. Advances in Spanish heritage language assessment 143
  15. A general framework and supporting strategies for teaching mixed classes 159
  16. Understanding identity among Spanish heritage learners 177
  17. Heritage language healing? Learners’ attitudes and damage control in a heritage language classroom 205
  18. Unit 3: Future lines of development in heritage language education
  19. Emerging trends with heritage language instructional practices 221
  20. New directions in heritage language pedagogy 237
  21. Heritage language learning in study abroad 259
  22. Online courses for heritage learners 281
  23. Flipping the classroom 299
  24. Afterword
  25. Looking ahead 325
  26. Author Index 347
  27. Subject Index 351
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