Spanish heritage learners' emerging literacy : empirical research and classroom practice / Flavia Belpoliti and Encarna Bermejo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belpoliti, Flavia, author.

Bermejo, Encarna, author.

Series:

Routledge advances in Spanish language teaching

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Study and teaching--United States.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Study and teaching.

Heritage language speakers.

Education.

Spanish language--Written Spanish.

United States.

Spanish language--Written Spanish--Study and teaching.

Heritage language speakers--Education.

Physical Description:

xiii, 205 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"Spanish Heritage Learners' Emerging Literacy: Empirical Research and Classroom Practice introduces a comprehensive, multi-level empirical study on the writing abilities of Spanish Heritage Learners at the beginner level; the findings guide a broad selection of instructional activities and pedagogical resources to support writing development in the heritage language classroom. This is the first book dealing exclusively with writing competence among Spanish Heritage Language Learners through the integration of empirical evidence and instructional perspectives to address core questions on heritage language literacy. In addition to the in-depth analysis of Spanish production--spelling, verb usage, grammatical features, vocabulary, and discourse organization--the volume revises the latest perspectives within the Heritage Language Education field, and provides effective teaching approaches, innovative classroom implementations, and up-to-date resources. The volume is versatile reading for researchers and practitioners in the fields of Bilingual Education, Language Teaching Methods, and Heritage Language Pedagogy as it integrates empirical evidence, global perspectives on heritage language teaching, and suggestions for further research" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Heritage Languages and Spanish Heritage Language Speakers in the United States

Spanish Orthography in Heritage Language Writing

Spanish Verbs in Emerging Heritage Language Writing

Building Sentences in Spanish: Complexity, Fluency and Accuracy

Spanish Vocabulary Knowledge in Action

Discourse Competence and Emergent Argumentative Writing

Towards a Signature Curriculum for Spanish as a Heritage Language

Teaching and Learning Heritage Languages: New Directions, Enduring Questions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138182134

1138182133

9781138182141

1138182141

OCLC:

1110124854