Published: 2025-07-02

Introducción

Elena Foulis, Glenn Martinez

1–2

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Esta edición especial de la revista Spanish as a Heritage Language es una muestra de la ponencias, diálogos y reconocimiento del...

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Foregrounding the Social Meanings Derived From Lived Experience

Perceptions of Mexican and U.S. Spanish Through the Lens of Biographical Indexicality

Whitney Chappell

3–25

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In this paper, I investigate the qualitative evaluations of both Spanish-dominant Mexican and U.S.-born bilingual participants toward Mexican...

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High School Spanish Heritage Language Learners’ Perceptions of their Writing Abilities

Andrea Czart, Liv T. Dávila

26–46

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The state of Illinois is home to the fifth largest Spanish-speaking population in the United States. The state’s board of education includes...

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Bienvenido o De Regreso a Casa

Curso de Español en un programa de inmersión para hablantes de herencia

Lydia García

47–80

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En este artículo se habla sobre cómo el Centro de Enseñanza Para Extranjeros (CEPE) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)...

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Reconceptualizing an SHL Program in South Texas

Stephanie Brock Gonzalez, Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla

81–103

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The field of Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) has grown significantly in the past two decades. However, SHL programs continue to face...

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Testimoniando the Graduate Student Perspective

Consejos y enseñanzas for implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices in Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) Classrooms

Maria G. Vielma, Jorge A. Hernández

104–223

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At the University of New Mexico (UNM), about 19.2% of undergraduate courses are taught by graduate teaching assistants...

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“Me parece muy importante que este tipo de lecturas sean asignadas”

A Latino Narrative Curriculum to Foster Interlatino Understanding and Identity Awareness

María del Puy Ciriza, Molly Monet-Viera

124–151

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This study examines an upper-level Spanish course at a university where domestic Latino students and international Latin American students are...

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Necropolitical Language Oppression

From the Delegitimization to the Promotion of Local Spanish on the Texas Borderlands

Christian Faltis

152–167

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Drawing on what Roche (2022) refers as the necropolitics of language oppression, this article explains how the ideologies of language (Faltis,...

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Spanish Heritage Learners Speak Out

A Flip-Based Journey to Fluency

Julia Oliver Rajan

168–184

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This paper explores the potential of Flip, a dynamic video-based platform, in empowering Spanish heritage speakers to enhance their vocabulary...

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La multiliteracidad crítica en el aula de español como lengua de herencia

Alexandra Rodríguez Sabogal

185–201

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Este artículo aborda las ventajas derivadas de la implementación del modelo de la multialfabetización o multiliteracidad crítica en el...

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Sociolinguistics and Heritage Language Knowledge in High School Classrooms

A Social Justice Perspective

Ana Sánchez-Muñoz, Laura Ruth-Hirrel

202–221

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Understanding the sociolinguistic dimensions of heritage and minority languages has been shown to have positive effects on students’...

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