Resources for teaching Spanish as a heritage language
Here are some resources for teaching Spanish as a heritage language.
Online resources
Teaching Heritage Languages: An Online Workshop. Two self-paced online tutorials designed for teachers of world and heritage languages.
http://startalk.nhlrc.ucla.edu/
REACH: A website with several excellent modules relating to the Spanish language and Spanish-speaking countries, as well as Hispanic culture in the US.
SNS teachers networking site: http://teachingsns.ning.com.
This is a fantastic & free online community where you can interact with other SNS teachers.
El Lexile Framework for Reading asesora el nivel de lectura de los alumnos, tanto en inglés como en español.
A writing rubric, in Spanish, from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory:http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/pdfRubrics/spanishrubric.pdf
Spanish spellchecker workshop. An MS Word document that helps students learn how to use a Spanish spellchecker.
Spanish language arts standards from WIDA: http://www.wida.us/standards/sla.aspx
Un folleto del Center for Applied Linguistics, titulado "Why start and maintain an SNS program?" http://www.cal.org/resources/pubs/sns_brochure.pdf
Textbooks
The Center for Applied Linguistics' annotated bibliography of high school and college SNS texts. This was last updated in 2001, so a few newer texts are not included, such as Conozcámonos and Sí se puede.
Fundamentos de la enseñanza del español a los hispanohablantes en los EEUU. K. Potowski, 2005. Resume los puntos principales sobre la enseñanza del español a los alumnos de ascendencia hispana en los Estados Unidos. Presenta un breve panorama de los principales grupos hispanos en los EE.UU., detalles sobre los conocimientos lingüísticos y necesidades académicas de estos alumnos y principios y aproximaciones pedagógicas concretas.
Conversaciones escritas, Potowski 2010, Wiley & Sons. Un libro de texto para hablantes de herencia enfocado en el desarrollo de la redacción formal. Se concentra en el ensayo argumentativo.
Conferences
ACTFL has an SNS special interest group. The annual ACTFL meeting has several sessions of interest to SNS. These are usually practice oriented.
Spanish in the U.S. (odd-numbered years; Miami 2009; UC-Davis 2011). Research oriented.
Books & articles
Future directions of heritage language research:
http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/heritagelanguages/journal/volume1.asp
Un artículo de María Carreira sobre las posibilidades de los cursos SNS de mejorar el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes latinos:http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/heritagelanguages/journal/ar...
Edstrom, A. (2005). A ‘Gringa’ Is Going to Teach Me Spanish!: A Nonnative Teacher Reflects and Responds.ADFL Bulletin, 36 (2): 27-31
Hidalgo, M. (1997). Criterios normativos e ideología lingüística: aceptación y rechazo del español de los Estados Unidos In M. C. Colombi & F. X. Alarcón (Eds.), La enseñanza del español a hispanohablantes: Praxis y teoría (109-120). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Lynch, A. (2003). Toward a theory of heritage language acquisition: Spanish in the United StatesIn Roca, A. & Colombi, C. (Eds.), Mi lengua: Spanish in the United States (25-50).
Nichols, P. & Colón, N. (2000). Spanish literacy and the academic success of Latino high school students: Codeswitching as a classroom resource Foreign Language Annals, 33 (5), 498-511.
Villa, D. (1996). Choosing a ‘standard’ variety the instruction of native Spanish speakers. Foreign Language Annals, 29 (2), 191-200.
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