ABSTRACT
Heritage Speakers of Spanish and Study Abroad is an edited volume that provides emerging research on heritage speakers of Spanish in immersion contexts in theoretical, empirical, and programmatic terms.
This edited collection seeks to expand our understanding of heritage speakers of Spanish by incorporating research on their linguistic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic development during and after a sojourn abroad, by discussing the complexities of their identity formation and negotiation during immersive stays, and by highlighting programmatic innovations that could be leveraged to better serve diverse learners in study abroad contexts.
This volume advances the fields of both heritage language education and research on immersion study in a variety of ways, and will be of interest to scholars of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and educational linguistics, especially those interested in study abroad programming and Spanish for heritage speakers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|87 pages
Sociolinguistics
chapter 1|20 pages
Sociolinguistic competence among heritage speakers of Spanish abroad
chapter 2|18 pages
The long-term impact of a sojourn abroad on heritage language learners of Spanish
chapter 3|26 pages
“Aquí el español es muy diferente”
chapter 4|21 pages
Individual differences in dialectal accommodation
part Section II|40 pages
Pragmatics
part Section III|40 pages
Identity
chapter 8|19 pages
The diverse experiences of heritage speakers at a Guatemalan language school
part Section IV|38 pages
Linguistic development
chapter 9|18 pages
Linguistic development of Spanish heritage learners in study abroad
part Section V|68 pages
Program design