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SPAN6798A-L11

Teaching Span to Span Speakers

Spanish in the United States: Teaching Spanish to Spanish Speakers

This course is an introduction to issues concerning Spanish language use in the United States social context and the teaching of Spanish to Spanish heritage speakers. We will tie discussions of academic needs and linguistic knowledge of Heritage speakers with research on the relationship between language and society in several Spanish-speaking communities. This course will cover pedagogical principals and approaches that take into consideration the different set of competencies that heritage speakers have when learning Spanish. During the course, students will develop practical applications for the heritage speaker in their classroom: materials development, lesson planning, and in-class expectations. (1 unit)

Required text: Kim Potowski, Fundamentos de la enseñanza del español a hispanohablantes en los EEUU (Madrid: Arco Libros, 2005); also electronic material in Segue.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
60492
Subject Code:
SPAN
Course Number:
6798
Section Identifier:
A

Course

SPAN 6798

All Sections in Summer 2011, LS 6 Week Session

Summer 2011, LS 6 Week Session

SPAN6798A-L11 Lecture (Isabelli)