A critical resource for inclusive teaching in the
Spanish classroom
Although Indigenous peoples are active citizens of the Americas,
many Spanish language teachers lack the knowledge and ...understanding
of their history, culture, and languages that is needed to present
the Spanish language in context. By presenting a more complete
picture of the Spanish speaking world, Indigenous America in
the Spanish Language Classroom invites teachers to adjust
their curricula to create a more inclusive classroom.
Anne Fountain provides teachers with key historical and cultural
information about Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and
explains how to incorporate relevant resources into their curricula
using a social justice lens. This book begins with an overview of
the Iberian impact on Indigenous Americans and connects it to
language teaching, giving practical ideas that are tied to language
learning standards. Each chapter finishes with a list for further
reading, inviting teachers to dig deeper. The book ends with a set
of ten conclusions and an extensive list of resources organized by
topic to help teachers find accurate information about Indigenous
America to enrich their teaching. Fountain includes illustrations
that relate directly to teaching ideas.
Hard-to-find resources and concrete teaching ideas arranged by
level as well as a glossary of important terms make this book an
essential resource for all Spanish language teachers.
Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant ...language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status. They have received a lot of scholarly attention and provide a link between academic concerns and educational issues. This book takes a language contact perspective: we consider heritage languages from the perspective of their history, their structural properties, and their interaction with other surrounding languages.
This is the first generative-oriented volume ever published about Asturian and Asturian Galician, two Romance languages which, along with their intrinsic interest, are crucial to understand the ...parametric distance between Spanish and Galician/Portuguese.
Lost in Transmission Brehmer, Bernhard; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine
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This volume makes a key contribution to the description and explanation of variability in the outcomes of heritage language acquisition, taking into account a wide range of factors which impact on ...language acquisition.
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic ...identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-breaking and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as numerous other scholars working on the various facets of this rapidly expanding field.
The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field – ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to ...dialectology – combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. -An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language contact: the study of how language changes when speakers of distinct speech varieties interact -Brings together 40 specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars -Examines language contact in societies which have significant immigration populations, and includes a fascinating cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world -Accessibly structured into sections exploring the place of contact studies within linguistics as a whole; the value of contact studies for research into language change; and language contact in the context of work on language and society -Explores a broad range of topics, making it an excellent resource for both faculty and students across a variety of fields within linguistics
This book offers an account of what, how and why language matters in academia by providing examples from a wide range of areas in European institutions.
The past decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the study of language contact, associated partly with the linguistic effects of globalization and increased migration all over the world. Written ...by a leading expert in the field, this much-needed account brings together disparate findings to examine the dynamics of contact between languages in an immigrant context. Using data from a wide range of languages, including German, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Croatian and Vietnamese, Michael Clyne discusses the dynamics of their contact with English. Clyne analyzes how and why these languages change in an immigration country like Australia, and asks why some languages survive longer than others. The book contains useful comparisons between immigrant vintages, generations, and between bilinguals and trilinguals. An outstanding contribution to the study of language contact, this book will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, bilingualism, the sociology of language and education.
