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  • Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States

    The State of the Field

    by Sara M. Beaudrie, Marta Fairclough, Guadalupe Valdés, Susana V. Rivera-Mills, Jennifer Leeman, Glenn Martínez, Andrew Lynch, Silvina Montrul, Derrin Pinto0, Ana M. Carvalho1, Cynthia M. Ducar2, Kim Potowski3, Maria M. Carreira4, M. Cecilia Colombi5, Joseph Harrington6 ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics series
    There is growing interest in heritage language learners—individuals who have a personal or familial connection to a nonmajority language. Spanish learners represent the largest segment of this population in the United States.In this comprehensive volume, experts offer an interdisciplinary overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States. They also address the central ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spanish in Chicago

    by Kim Potowski, Lourdes Torres ...
    Series series OXFORD STUDIES SOCIOLINGUISTICS SERIES
    Spanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population. Identifying Chicago as a rich site for examining language and dialect contact at both community and family levels, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres describe the spoken ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • International Education at the Crossroads

    by Michael A. McRobbie, Mary Sue Coleman, Kenneth Coleman, Patrick O'Meara, Robin Matross Helms, Elspeth Jones, Hans de Wit, Eva Egron-Polak, Jonathan Fanton, Stephen E. Hanson, Kris Olds, Zsuzsa Gille, Seung-Kyung Kim, Brian Edwards, Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal, Dan E. Davidson, Daryl Baldwin, Kim Potowski, Francisco Marmolejo, Safwan M. Masri, Caroline Levander, Kathleen Claussen, Takyiwaa Manuh, Allan E. Goodman, Dawn Michele Whitehead, Cheryl Gibbs, Anthony Koliha, General Gene Renuart ...
    International Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. Written by leading scholars, international educators, and policy makers, the 26 essays in this volume take stock of the unpredictable landscape of international education and demonstrate why international higher education is more essential now than ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Sociolinguistic Change Across the Spanish-Speaking World

    Case Studies in Honor of Anna María Escobar

    Edited by Kim Potowski, Talia Bugel ...
    This collection of essays presents cutting-edge research in Hispanic sociolinguistics. They include studies on language variation and change, contact varieties, language use, perception, and attitudes and focus on language varieties such as Peruvian Spanish, Mexican Spanish on the U.S. – Mexican border and in the Midwest, and two Peninsular varieties (in the Basque country and in Catalonia). This ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language

    Edited by Kim Potowski ...
    Series series Routledge Spanish Language Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Spanish as a Heritage Language brings together contributions from leading linguists, educators and Latino Studies scholars involved in teaching and working with Spanish heritage language speakers.This state-of-the-art overview covers a range of topics within five broad areas: Spanish in U.S. public life, Spanish heritage language use and systems, educational contexts, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Language Diversity in the USA

    Edited by Kim Potowski ...
    What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English. Each chapter paints a portrait of the history ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

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  • The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

    Edited by Manuel Díaz-Campos ...
    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics.Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguisticsHighlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theoryBrings together a ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Expanding Definitions of Giftedness

    The Case of Young Interpreters From Immigrant Communities

    by Guadalupe Valdes ...
    Series series Educational Psychology Series
    This book is about bilingual young people who have been selected by their families to carry out the hard work of interpreting and translating to mediate communication between themselves and the outside world--between minority and majority communities. It examines the experiences of these young interpreters and the skills they develop in order to fulfill this role.The authors' purpose in this ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Research on Politeness in the Spanish-Speaking World

    Edited by Maria Elena Placencia, Carmen Garcia-Fernandez ...
    One of the main contributions of this important book is that it offers a thorough survey of the theoretical and empirical developments that have occurred in the area of (im)politeness in the different regions of the Spanish-speaking world, gathering together overviews by distinguished scholars. Additionally, the book advances the field with new empirical research on linguistic (im)politeness, and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • L2 Spanish Pragmatics

    From Research to Teaching

    Edited by Domnita Dumitrescu, Patricia Lorena Andueza ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Spanish Language Teaching
    L2 Spanish Pragmatics is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current research into pragmatics and Spanish language teaching.It presents the research on the teaching of pragmatics and Spanish language as a multifaceted discipline. Written by an international cohort of scholars, the breadth of topics includes innovative topics in the teaching of Spanish, such as genre analysis, discourse ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on Intercultural Language Research and Teaching

    Exploring Learners’ Understandings of Texts from Other Cultures

    by Melina Porto, Michael Byram ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretical rationales and methodological designs typically used to investigate cultural understanding in reading, in particular foreign language reading. It presents an alternative approach which is more authentic in its methods, more educational in its ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions

    Edited by Luis Alfredo Ortiz-López, Eva-María Suárez Büdenbender ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
    Topics in Spanish Linguistic Perceptions brings together the most current research on linguistic perceptions of varieties of Spanish.The book includes articles from a range of expert contributors using different methodologies and looking at diverse sociolinguistic settings. Readers will gain a rich understanding of the importance of linguistic perceptions and the societal attitudes they are linked ... Read more

    $55.99 USD