Aquí se habla: Centering the Local and Personal in Spanish Language Education

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Aquí se habla

Centering the Local and Personal in Spanish Language Education

Edited by: Adam Schwartz , Dalia Magaña , Devin Grammon and Sergio Loza
Afterword by: Glenn A. Martínez

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 7 | Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics [CRITAL]

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Aquí Se Habla serves to envision a more just and equitable Spanish language education that centers language learning as a deeply personal, local, and lifelong practice. Organized around long-standing tension points within and outside the profession, this volume features a unique set of contributors whose diverse perspectives help to deconstruct disciplinary boundaries and elevate the knowledge and lived experiences of U.S. Spanish speakers. With chapters that include a variety of formats and dialogues between authors, this invaluable resource is collectively crafted by and for students, researchers, educators, and community partners.

In the Winter of 2025, Adam Schwartz taught a course for Spanish majors and minors at Oregon State University, his home institution. A special topics course, this offering of SPAN 399 was themed Bilingüismo local y personal ("Local and Personal Bilingualism") and was guided by the contents of Aquí Se Habla, released during that time. The class afforded students to explore the book’s principal themes. Distinct from a survey course that introduces such a thesis through published texts at arm’s length, this class proved to be an experiment of sorts, where students realized and documented their own bilingualisms as lived, dynamic experiences, and in ways that simply cannot organize neatly into academic categorizations. In this course, students individually and collectively wrote, shared, reflected, interviewed, sat in conversation, and presented Spanish-English bilingualisms as lifelong relationships with and through teaching and learning. The course materials were donated to the Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) and were added to the Oregon Multicultural Communities Research Collection. To access the materials, contact SCARC via email scarc@oregonstate.edu and request the "SPAN 399 Bilingüismo local y personal, 2025" materials from the Oregon Multicultural Communities Research Collection; the electronic files will be shared with you upon request.

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Adam Schwartz, Oregon State University; Dalia Magaña, University of California, Merced; Devin Grammon and Sergio Loza, University of Oregon.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Note from the series editor Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Chapter 1 On local and personal Spanish education Devin Grammon, Sergio Loza, Dalia Magaña and Adam Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Section I: Embodied knowledge/institutional knowledge
Chapter 2 Introduction Sergio Loza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Chapter 3 Indigeneity in SHL education: Personal and academic reflections Valeria Ochoa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
Chapter 4 A Chicana/o de-colonial praxis for the SHL classroom: Where colonial language meets decolonial pedagogy/epistemology José R. Flores, José Juan Gómez-Becerra and Sergio Loza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
Chapter 5 Contributor conversation: Embodied knowledge/institutional knowledge Sergio Loza, José Juan Gómez Becerra, Valeria Ochoa and José Flores Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Section II: Local Spanish/medical Spanish
Chapter 6 Introduction Dalia Magaña Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
Chapter 7 Promoting language access and Latinx health advocacy in California’s Central Valley Dalia Magaña Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Chapter 8 Journaling for ad hoc interpreters: Themes on experiences, factors, and consequences Rey Romero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
Chapter 9 The evolution and revolution of medical Spanish in the United States Pilar Ortega and Celyn Bregio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Chapter 10 Contributor conversation: Local Spanish/ medical Spanish Dalia Magaña, Rey Romero, Pilar Ortega and Celyn Bregio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Section III: Home/abroad
Chapter 11 Introduction Devin Grammon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
Chapter 12 Us and them: Affective materialities and the binarizing effects of “study abroad” Phiona Stanley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Chapter 13 Be(com)ing a Black Spanish speaker: Raciolinguistic dimensions of identity, allegiance, and belonging Eva Michelle Wheeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
Chapter 14 “You teach Spanish?”: Reflections on language, identity, and (il)legitimacy Tracy Quan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
Chapter 15 Contributor conversation: Home/abroad Devin Grammon, Eva Michelle Wheeler, Phiona Stanley and Tracy Quan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
Section IV: Visibility/invisibility
Chapter 16 Introduction Adam Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
Chapter 17 A journey of combating language insecurity: Parts 1, 1C, 2 and 3 Lydia Otero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
Chapter 18 On translating visibly and invisibly between English and Spanish Michelle Aguilera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315
Chapter 19 Nuestros domingos: Creating our place in public space Victor García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
Chapter 20 Contributor conversation: Visibility and invisibility Adam Schwartz, Lydia Otero, Victor García and Michelle Aguilera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Chapter 21 Conclusion Adam Schwartz, Dalia Magaña, Sergio Loza and Devin Grammon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
Chapter 22 Afterword Glenn A. Martínez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	375

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eBook published on:

March 3, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783111323237

Hardcover published on:

March 3, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111323138

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Front matter:

12

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394

Illustrations:

8

Tables:

2

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111323237

eBook ISBN: 9783111323237

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111323138

Keywords for this book

Spanish in the U.S.; Language Education; Latinidad; Language Ideology; Bilingualism

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Researchers, Students, and Teachers interested in Spanish in the US, Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, and Latinidad

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