ABSTRACT
¿Y tú quién eres? is an interview project designed for Beginner Spanish students to foster a community of practice. This case study acknowledges the sociocultural dimension of literacy and the diversity of Hispanic cultures present at a college campus in the Northeastern United States. In recent years, literature on project-based learning, multiliteracies, and second language acquisition has offered different frameworks that have stressed the importance of a community of practice in facilitating language acquisition, highlighting how “culture plays a central role in establishing communicative competence" (Mikulec and Chamness Miller 82). Most previous case studies have centered on students with high-level proficiency rather than novice learners, but in this article, the authors demonstrate that many of the benefits of PBL can be successfully implemented and adapted for beginning learners.
