Table of Contents
ForewordGuadalupe Valdés
1. Insights form Research and Practice in Spanish as a Heritage LanguageM. Cecilia Colombi and Ana Roca
Part I Spanish as a Heritage LanguageTheoretical Considerations
2. Toward a Theory of Heritage Language AcquisitionSpanish in the United StatesAndrew Lynch
3. Profiles of SNS Students in the Twenty-First CenturyPedagogical Implications of the Changing Demographics and Social Status of U.S. HispanicsMaría M. Carreira
4. Un enfoque funcional para la enseñanza del ensayo expositivo¿Revitalización o erradicación de la variedad chicana?Ysaura Bernal-Enríquez and Eduardo Hernández Chávez
Part II Community and Classroom-Based Research StudiesImplications for Instruction K-16
6. “Spanish in My Blood”Children’s Spanish Language Development in Dual-Language Immersion ProgramsErnestina Pesina Hernández, Hinako Takahashi-Breines, and Rebecca Blum-Martínez
7. Minority Perspectives on LanguageMexican and Mexican-American Adolescents’ Attitudes toward Spanish and EnglishKaren Beckstead and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
8. META: A Model for the Continued Acquisition of Spanish by Spanish/English Bilinguals in the United StatesRoberto Luis Carrasco and Florencia Riegelhaupt
9. La enseñanza del español a los hispanohablantes bilingües y su efecto en la producción oralMarta Fairclough and N. Ariana Mrak
10. Academic Registers in Spanish in the U.S.A Study of Oral Texts Produced by Bilingual Speakers in a University Graduate ProgramMariana Achugar
11. ¡No me suena!Heritage Spanish Speakers’ Writing StrategiesAna María Schwartz
12. Navegando a través del registro formalCurso para hispanohablantes bilingüesRebeca Acevedo
13. Spanish Print EnvironmentsImplications for Heritage Language DevelopmentSandra Liliana Pucci
Contributors
Index