Tag: SHL
Workshop: New Perspectives and Techniques for Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language
Registration for this workshop is now closed Heritage Spanish instructors of all levels (K-12, higher ed) are welcome to attend this series of mini-workshops led by faculty from Texas A&M, Texas A&M Commerce, Houston Baptist, UT Rio Grande Valley, UT Austin and Baylor. Sociolinguistics approaches to SHL for grammar and vocabulary development – José Esteban Hernández…
Online lessons for Spanish Heritage by Teachers for Teachers
Session at the Texas Foreign Language Association Conference In this session, Meredith Clark and José Sologuren will share resources created for Spanish Heritage students. In addition to exploring available materials, attendees will learn how teachers in Texas authored lessons and worked with the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Open Educational Resources and Language…
“No Child Left Monolingual” a Talk by Kim Potowski
The U.S. has always been a linguistically diverse nation, but the overall climate usually discourages and sometimes outright discriminates against the use of non-English languages. The grandchildren of immigrants often don’t speak their grandparents’ language anymore, which squanders the wonderful resource of hundreds of non-English languages spoken in communities across the U.S. In addition, we…