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Submitted by kim on Sun, 01/11/2009 - 4:23pm

A complete CV is available here: Potowski_CV_April_2012.pdf

Books

Potowski, K.  (2007).   Language and identity in a dual immersion school.  Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Potowski, K.  (2005).  Fundamentos de la enseñanza del español a los hablantes nativos en los Estados Unidos (Foundations in teaching Spanish to native speakers in the United States).  Madrid, Spain: Arco/Libros.

Edited volumes

Potowski, K. & Rothman, J. (Eds.) (2011).  Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Potowski, K.  (Ed.).  (2010). Language diversity in the United States.  Cambridge University Press.

Potowski, K. & Cameron, R.  (Eds.) (2007).  Spanish in Contact: Educational, Linguistic, and Social Inquiries.  Selected proceedings from the 20th Conference on Spanish in the United States and the 5th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages.  New York:  John Benjamins.

Articles in refereed journals

Potowski, K., Parada, M., & Morgan-Short, K. (Forthcoming). Developing an online placement exam for Spanish heritage speakers and L2 students. Heritage Language Journal.

Carreira, M. & Potowski, K. (2011). Commentary: Pedagogical implications of experimental SNS research. Invited article, special issue on Spanish linguistics. Heritage Language Journal, 8 (1), 134- 151.

Potowski, K. (2011). Linguistic and cultural authenticity of ‘Spanglish’ greeting cards. Potowski_2011_greeting_cards.pdf International Journal of Multilingualism, 8 (4), 1-21. 

Potowski, K., Jegerski, J. & Morgan-Short, K.  (2009).  The effects of instruction on subjunctive development among Spanish heritage language speakers.  Language Learning 59 (3): 537-579.

Torres, L. & Potowski, K.  (2008).  A comparative study of bilingual discourse markers in Chicago Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Spanish.  International Journal of Bilingualism, 12 (4), 263-279.

Potowski, K., Berne, J., Clark, A. and Hammerand, A.  (2008).  Spanish for K-8 Heritage Speakers: A Standards-Based Curriculum Project.  Hispania, 91 (1), 25-41.

Potowski, K. and Matts, J. (2008).  Interethnic language and identity: MexiRicans in Chicago.   Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 7 (2): 137-160.

Montrul, S. & Potowski, K.  (2007).  Command of gender agreement in school-age Spanish-English Bilingual Children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 11 (3), 301-328.

Potowski, K.  (2007).  Characteristics of the Spanish proficiency of dual immersion graduates.  Spanish in Context, 4 (2), 187–216.

Potowski, K. & Carreira, M.  (2004).  Towards teacher development and national standards for Spanish as a heritage language.  Foreign Language Annals 37 (3), 421-431. 

Potowski, K.  (2004).  Spanish language shift in Chicago.  Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 23 (1), 87-116. 

Potowski, K.  (2004).  Student Spanish use and investment in a dual immersion classroom: Implications for second language acquisition and heritage language maintenance.  Modern Language Journal, 88 (1), 75-101.

Potowski, K.  (2003). Chicago's Heritage Language Teacher Corps: A model for improving Spanish teacher development.  Hispania, 86 (2), 302-311.

Potowski, K.  (2002).  Experiences of Spanish heritage speakers in university foreign language courses and implications for teacher training.  ADFL Bulletin, 33 (3), 35-42.

Chapters in books

Potowski, K.  (Forthcoming). Language Maintenance and Shift.  In R. Bayley, R. Cameron & C. Lucas (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. 

Potowski, K.  (2012). Identity and heritage language learners: Moving beyond essentializations.  In S. Beaudrie & M. Fairclough (Eds.), Spanish as a Heritage Language in the US: State of the Science. Georgetown University Press.

Potowski, K.  (2011).  Intrafamilial dialect contact.  In Díaz-Campos, M. (Ed.), Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics.  Wiley-Blackwell.

Potowski, K. and Gorman, L.  (2010). Quinceañeras: Hybridized tradition, language use, and identity in the U.S. In Potowski, K. & Rothman, J. (Eds.), Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies.  John Benjamins.

Potowski, K. (2010).  Language diversity in the USA: Dispelling common myths and appreciating advantages.  In K. Potowski (Ed.), Language diversity in the United States (1-24).  Cambridge University Press.

Potowski, K. & Carreira, M.  (2010).  Spanish in the USA.  In K. Potowski (Ed.), Language diversity in the United States (66-80).  Cambridge University Press.

Potowski, K.  (2009). Forms and functions of code-switching by dual immersion students: A comparison of heritage speaker and L2 children.  In M. Turnbull & Miles & J. Dailey-O’Cain (Eds.), First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning (87-114).  Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Potowski, K.  (2008)  ¿Por qué ofrecen una clase para hispanohablantes?  In Jennifer Ewald & Anne Edstrom (Eds.), El español a través de la lingüística: Preguntas y respuestas.  Somerville, MA: Cascadilla (228-241).

Potowsk, K.  (2008).  “I was raised talking like my mom”: The influence of mothers in the development of MexiRicans’ phonological and lexical features.  In J. Rothman & M. Niño-Murcia (Eds.), Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages (201-220).  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Potowski, K.  (2005).  Latino children's classroom language use: The role of identity investments.  In Marcia Farr (Ed.), Ethnolinguistic Chicago, Volume II: Latino Language and Literacy (157-185).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Encyclopedia entries

Potowski, K.  (2009). Los latinos de etnicidad mixta (Mixed ethnicity Latinos).  In the Enciclopedia del español en los Estados Unidos (pp. 410-413).  Madrid: Instituto Cervantes/Santillana.

Silva-Corvalán, C. & Potowski, K.  (2009).  La alternancia de códigos (Codeswitching). In the Enciclopedia del español en los Estados Unidos.  Madrid: Instituto Cervantes/Santillana.

Articles in conference proceedings

Potowski, K, Dillon, K, Kagan, O, McGinnis, S. and Peyton, J.  (Forthcoming).  Teachers of heritage language speakers: Perturbing assumptions and possible solutions.  Conference proceedings, Language Teacher Education 2009. National Capital Language Resource Center.

Potowski, K. (2005).  Spanish language maintenance education in Chicago, IL, U.S.A.  In Witte, E., Van Mensel, L., Pierrard, M., Mettewie, L., Housen, A. & De Groof, R. (Eds.), Language, Attitudes & Education in Multilingual Cities, Wetteren: Universa Press.

Potowski, K. (2005).  Tense and aspect in the oral and written narratives of dual immersion students.  Refereed proceedings of the Seventh Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (123-136). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.

Articles in non-refereed journals

Potowski, K. (2006).  El desarrollo de la lectoescritura en español entre los alumnos hispanohablantes en los Estados Unidos.  Contextos multiculturales, otoño 2006.  Santillana Press y la Universidad de Salamanca.

Potowski, K. & Lynch, A.  (2004).  La enseñanza del español en los Estados Unidos.  Boletín de la asociación para la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera, 30. 

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

Potowski, K. & Torres, L.  Spanish in Chicago: Dialect contact and language socialization among Mexicans and Puerto Ricans

Potowski, K.  (Book manuscript in progress).  MexiRicans: Inter-Latino language and identity.

Escobar, A.M. & Potowski, K.  (Book manuscript in progress).  El español de los Estados Unidos.

Beaudrie, S., Ducar, C. & Potowski, K. (Book manuscript in progress).  Teaching Spanish to heritage speakers.