Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning

ISBN-13: 9780815364771 / Twarda / 2024 / 200 str.

Damian (University Of New Mexico) Vergara Wilson

Opis

Language Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning addresses the ways in which discourses about language value and identities of linguistic expertise are constructed and negotiated in the Spanish heritage language classroom, and how the classroom discourse shapes, and is shaped by, the world outside.

Spis treści

Preface

Chapter 1. Language, Identity, and Heritage Language Learning

Chapter 2. Spanish as a Heritage Language in Texas and Kansas

Chapter 3. Teachers’ Personal Histories and Classroom Praxis

Chapter 4. Heritage Language Students’ Experiences, Ideologies, and Social Positioning

Chapter 5. Heritage Language Learning and Symbolic Power

Chapter 6. Heritage Language Education in Specific Contexts

O autorze

Rachel Showstack, PhD, is Associate Professor of Spanish at Wichita State University, USA. Her work on Spanish heritage language learning, Spanish in the U.S., and language and healthcare has appeared in various scholarly journals and edited collections, and she is co-editor of Contexts of Co-Constructed Discourse: Interaction, Pragmatics, and Second Language Applications and co-author of Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist. She is also the founder and president of the community-based health equity organization Alce su Voz, for which she has received multiple federal and foundation grants.

 

Diego Pascual y Cabo, PhD, an Associate Professor at the University of Florida, USA, is a formally-trained linguist who studies and cares deeply about Spanish heritage speaker bilingualism. In his work, not only is he intentional about raising critical language awareness, he is also committed to dispelling negative and simplistic ideologies about minoritized bilinguals and their linguistic practices. As a teacher, he is passionate about the pursuit of a more equitable and more critically conscious education.

 

Damián Vergara Wilson, PhD, is a Professor of Spanish at the University of New Mexico, USA. Although he has worked extensively on language evolution in Spanish through a usage-base perspective and has a foundation in sociolinguistics, he has always maintained a focus on issues facing Spanish speakers, especially heritage learners, in the U.S. context. His current research agenda has focused evaluating heritage learner perspectives of their learning experiences and how these may inform critical pedagogies.