Publications

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. Editor. (Forthcoming 2009). Language diversity in the United States. Cambridge University Press.

Potowski, K. & Cameron, R. (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., 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. (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.

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. (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). Clevedon, 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.), Linguistic Identity and Bilingualism in Different Hispanic Contexts. New York: John Benjamins (201-220).

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.

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.

Books, articles and chapters under review and in progress:

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

Potowski, K. (In progress). Conversaciones escritas: Writing for heritage speakers. Textbook. John Wiley & Sons.

Potowski, K. and Gorman, L. (In progress). Quinceañeras: Hybridized tradition, language use, and identity in the U.S. Book chapter.

Potowski, K. and Tippins, M. (In progress). “Spanglish” greeting cards as linguistic and cultural performance. Book chapter.

Potowski, K. & Rothman, J. (Edited volume in progress). Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies..

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.

Textbooks

Dawson, L., Potowski, K. & Sobral, S. (Nov. 2007). Dicho y hecho , Introductory Spanish. 8th edition. John Wiley & Sons.

Reviews

Potowski, K. (Forthcoming). Homegirls: Language and cultural practice among Latina youth gangs. Norma Mendoza-Denton, Blackwell, 2008. Reviewed for International Journal of the Sociology of Language.

Potowski, K. (Forthcoming). Second language identities. David Block, Continuum, 2007. Reviewed for Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Potowski, K. (Forthcoming). Varieties of Spanish in the United States. John Lipski, Georgetown University Press, 2008. Reviewed for Studies in Hispanic and Lusopone Linguistics.

Potowski, K. (2008). Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship. Nicholas De Genova & Ana Ramos-Zayas, Routledge, 2003. Reviewed for Latino Studies, 6 (3), 366-369.

Potowski, K. (2006). Situational Context of Education: A Window Into the World of Bilingual Learners by Brisk, Burgos & Hamerla. Reviewed for International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 9 (2).

Potowski, K. (2001). Identity and language learning: Gender, ethnicity and educational change, by B. Norton. Reviewed for Bilingual Research Journal, 25 (1 & 2).

Manuscript reviewer for Modern Language Journal, Spanish in Context, Foreign Language Annals, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics.