Publications

Books

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Book Chapters & Journal Articles

 
  • Henshaw, F. & Potowski, K. (Eds.). (Expected 2023). Honing our craft: World language teaching in the U.S. Difusión/Klett.

    Potowski, K. (2018). Handbook of Spanish as a heritage language. Routledge.

    Potowski, K. & Bugel, T. (Eds.). (2015). Sociolinguistic change across the Spanish-speaking world: Case studies in honor of Anna María Escobar. Peter Lang.

    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. John Benjamins.

  • Luque, A., Vargas, B. Potowski, K. & Torres, L. (Submitted). Spanish subjunctive use by Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago: A comparison of generational groups and proficiency levels.

    Solis Barroso, C. & Potowski, K. (Submitted). The (mis)identification of the mono/bilingualism of Latino English speakers.

    Marshall, M. & Potowski, K. (Submitted). The Spanish proficiency of Latino students in dual immersion vs. English only classrooms: A pseudo-longitudinal study across multiple domains

    O’Rourke, E. & Potowski, K. (2016). Phonetic accommodation in a situation of Spanish dialect contact: /s/ and /r/ in Chicago. Journal of Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2 (9) 1-44.

    Potowski, K. (2016). Bilingual youth: Spanish-speakers at the beginning of the 21st century. Language and Linguistics Compass, 10 (6), 272-283.

    Potowski, K. & Lynch, A. (2014). La enseñanza del español a los hablantes de herencia: Teoría y praxis. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 1 (2), 154-170.

    Lynch, A. & Potowski, K. (2014). La valoración del habla bilingüe en Estados Unidos: Fundamentos sociolingüísticos y pedagógicos en Hablando bien se entiende la gente. Hispania, 97 (1), 32-46.

    Potowski, K. (2013). The linguistic dimension of immigration in the United States. Invited article in special issue of Lengua y migración/Language and migration, 5 (2), 29-50.

    Potowski, K., Parada, M., & Morgan-Short, K. (2012). Developing an online placement exam for Spanish heritage speakers and L2 students. Heritage Language Journal, 9 (1), 51-76.

    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). “Spanglish” greeting cards as linguistic and cultural performance. 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), 75101.

    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.

  • Potowski, K. (2021). Elementary School Heritage Language Educational Options and Outcomes. In S. Montrul & M. Polinsky (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics (pp. 761-771).

    Potowski, K. (2021). No child left monolingual: How and why to promote multilingualism in U.S. schools. In D. Cohn and H. Kahn (Eds.), International Education at the Crossroads (156-174). Indiana University Press.

    Potowski, K. (2020). Spanish in the Midwest: Hablando in the heartland. In E. Lamboy & F. Salgado-Robles (Eds.), New domains of Spanish use in the United States (65-93). Brill.

    Potowski, K. (2016). Current issues in Spanish heritage language education. In Pascual y Cabo, D. (Ed.), Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language (127-141). John Benjamins.

    Torres, L. & Potowski, K. (2016). Hablamos los dos in the Windy City: Codeswitching among Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and MexiRicans in Chicago. In R. Guzzardo Tamargo, C. Mazak and M.C. Parafita Couto (Eds.), Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the U.S. (84-105). John Benjamins.

    Potowski, K. (2015). Ethnolinguistic identities and ideologies among Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and “MexiRicans” in Chicago. In R. Márquez-Reiter and L.M. Rojo (Eds.), A sociolinguistics of diaspora: Latino practices, identities and ideologies (13-30). Routledge.

    Potowski, K. (2013). El contacto de dialectos del español en Estados Unidos. In Domnita Dumitrescu (Ed.), El español en Estados Unidos: E pluribus unum? (149-166). Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española y Ediciones ANLE.

    Potowski, K. (2012). Identity and heritage learners: Moving beyond essentializations. In S. Beaudrie & M. Fairclough (Eds.), Spanish as a Heritage Language in the US: State of the Science (283-304). Georgetown University Press.

    Potowski, K. and Gorman, L. (2011). Quinceañeras: Hybridized tradition, language use, and identity in the U.S. In Potowski, K. & Rothman, J. (Eds.), Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies (57-87). 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.

    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). 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. 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 (201-220). 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). Lawrence Erlbaum.

    Encyclopedia and handbook entries

    Potowski, K. (2022). Elementary school heritage language educational options and outcomes. In S. Montrul & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics.

    Potowski, K. & Shin, Sarah. (2019). Heritage language instruction. In John W. Schwieter & Alessandro Benati (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Language Learning.

    Potowski, K. (2017). Spanish language and education in the Midwest. In S. Valerio-Jiménez, O. VaqueraVásquez, and C. Fox (Eds.), The Latino Midwest Reader (123-139). University of Illinois Press.

    Cameron, R. & Potowski, K. (2015). La diversidad sociolingüística. In Gutiérrez-Rexach, J. (Ed.), Enciclopedia de lingüística hispánica (423-431). Routledge.

    Potowski, K. (2014). Spanish. In T. Wiley (Ed.), Handbook of heritage and community languages in the United States: Research, educational practice, and policy (90-100). Routledge.

    Potowski, K. (2013). Heritage learners of Spanish. In K. Geeslin (Ed.), Handbook of second language Spanish (404-422). Wiley Blackwell.

    Potowski, K. (2013). Language Maintenance and Shift. In R. Bayley, R. Cameron & C. Lucas (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (321-339). Oxford University Press.

    Potowski, K. (2011). Intrafamilial dialect contact. In Díaz-Campos, M. (Ed.), Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics (579-597). Wiley-Blackwell.

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

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

    Articles in conference proceedings

    Potowski, K., Sanfelici, L., Oliviero, C. (2013). La enseñanza del español como ‘lengua de herencia’ en Génova, Italia. In Carpani & Crovetto (Eds.), Migrazioni, lingue, identità, Atti del convegno Flussi migratori, politiche linguistiche e integrazione: Europa e America a confronto (67-98). Genoa, Italy: ECIG.

    Potowski, K., Dillon, K., Kagan, O., McGinnis, S. and Peyton, J. (2013). Teachers of heritage language speakers: Perturbing assumptions and possible solutions. Conference proceedings, Language Teacher Education 2009 and 2011 (19-45). National Capital Language Resource Center.

    Potowski, K. & Bolyanatz, M. (2012). Reactions to (in)felicitous codeswitching: Heritage speakers vs. L2 learners. In K. Geeslin and M. Díaz-Campos (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (116-129). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

    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. In D. Eddington (Ed.), Refereed proceedings of the Seventh Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (123-136). Cascadilla.

  • Potowski, K. (2022). Elementary school heritage language educational options and outcomes. In S. Montrul & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics.

    Potowski, K. & Shin, Sarah. (2019). Heritage language instruction. In John W. Schwieter & Alessandro Benati (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Language Learning.

    Potowski, K. (2017). Spanish language and education in the Midwest. In S. Valerio-Jiménez, O. VaqueraVásquez, and C. Fox (Eds.), The Latino Midwest Reader (123-139). University of Illinois Press.

    Cameron, R. & Potowski, K. (2015). La diversidad sociolingüística. In Gutiérrez-Rexach, J. (Ed.), Enciclopedia de lingüística hispánica (423-431). Routledge.

    Potowski, K. (2014). Spanish. In T. Wiley (Ed.), Handbook of heritage and community languages in the United States: Research, educational practice, and policy (90-100). Routledge.

    Potowski, K. (2013). Heritage learners of Spanish. In K. Geeslin (Ed.), Handbook of second language Spanish (404-422). Wiley Blackwell.

    Potowski, K. (2013). Language Maintenance and Shift. In R. Bayley, R. Cameron & C. Lucas (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (321-339). Oxford University Press.

    Potowski, K. (2011). Intrafamilial dialect contact. In Díaz-Campos, M. (Ed.), Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics (579-597). Wiley-Blackwell.

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

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

    Articles in conference proceedings

    Potowski, K., Sanfelici, L., Oliviero, C. (2013). La enseñanza del español como ‘lengua de herencia’ en Génova, Italia. In Carpani & Crovetto (Eds.), Migrazioni, lingue, identità, Atti del convegno Flussi migratori, politiche linguistiche e integrazione: Europa e America a confronto (67-98). Genoa, Italy: ECIG.

    Potowski, K., Dillon, K., Kagan, O., McGinnis, S. and Peyton, J. (2013). Teachers of heritage language speakers: Perturbing assumptions and possible solutions. Conference proceedings, Language Teacher Education 2009 and 2011 (19-45). National Capital Language Resource Center.

    Potowski, K. & Bolyanatz, M. (2012). Reactions to (in)felicitous codeswitching: Heritage speakers vs. L2 learners. In K. Geeslin and M. Díaz-Campos (Eds.), Selected proceedings of the 14th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (116-129). Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

    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. In D. Eddington (Ed.), Refereed proceedings of the Seventh Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (123-136). Cascadilla.