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INSTITUTO CERVANTES AT HARVARD
Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos
CONVERSATIONS IN THE OBSERVATORIO
Kim Potowski
As of 2010, Latinos formed 17% of the U.S. population and are the demographic group that is increasing at the largest rate. Those individuals who grow up speaking some Spanish at home are often referred to as ‘heritage speakers’ of the language. Current estimates suggest that 40% of universities now offer courses in Spanish that are specially designed for heritage speakers. In this talk, Kim Potowski discusses what makes teaching Spanish to heritage speakers different from teaching it to second language learners, as well as some salient pedagogical and administrative issues involved when teaching this population.
Desde 2010 los latinos constituyen el 17% de la población estadounidense y son el grupo demográfico que está aumentando a mayor ritmo. Las personas que crecen hablando algo de español en el hogar son conocidos como hablantes de lengua herencia. Las estimaciones actuales indican que el 40% de las universidades ofrecen cursos de español que están especialmente diseñados para los hablantes de herencia. En este encuentro, Potowski trata lo que hace diferente a la enseñanza del español como lengua de herencia de la enseñanza de español como segunda lengua, así como algunos aspectos relevantes, desde un punto de vista pedagógico y administrativo, implicados en la enseñanza.
Kim Potowski is Associate Professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has authored, co-authored, and edited 7 books including Heritage language teaching: Research and practice (2014), Language diversity in the USA (2011), Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies (2008) and Language and identity in a dual immersion school (2007). She has also authored two Spanish textbooks. More details about her work can be found at http://potowski.org
Co-sponsored by Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Seminar of Spanish as a Heritage Language (coord.: M.L. Parra)
In English
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