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Bringing Linguistics into the Spanish Language Classroom
A Teacher's Guide
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Bringing Linguistics into the Spanish Language Classroom is a practical, time-saving resource that allows teachers to easily integrate the most interesting and important findings of Hispanic linguistics into their Spanish language classes.
Teachers will find classroom-ready explanations and PowerPoint slides for each topic covered, as well as instructions and materials for in-class activities and take-home projects that will engage students in this fresh take on the target language. Slide presentations for each chapter are available online at www.routledge.com/9780367111960.
The book covers aspects of Spanish from the trilled r to the personal a, from Indo-European origins to modern dialects, and from children’s first words to adult speech errors. An innovative set of five linguistics-based essential questions organizes and contextualizes this wide range of material:
- How is Spanish different from other languages?
- How is Spanish similar to other languages?
- What are the roots of Spanish?
- How does Spanish vary?
- How do people learn and use Spanish?
Fully customizable to teacher and student interest, proficiency level, and time available in class, this book is ideal for Spanish language teachers looking to incorporate valuable linguistic insights into their curricula, even if they lack prior knowledge of this field. It is an excellent resource for Hispanic linguistics courses as well.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Why linguistics?
How to use this book
More about the essential questions
References
Chapter 1: How is Spanish different from other languages?
Spanish in the world
Speakers and countries
The Academy system
The Nobel Prize in Literature
Language features
The inverted ¿ and ¡ marks
The eñe
The th sound
The mega-preposition en
The two imperfect subjunctives
The variety of Spanish past tenses
Gendered first and second person pronouns
References
Chapter 2: How is Spanish similar to other languages?
Limited capitalization
Five vowels
Simple syllables
The trilled r
Special locative
Multiple you pronouns
Frequent irregular verbs
Preterite and imperfect
Gender
The personal a
References
Chapter 3: What are the roots of Spanish?
External history
A bird’s-eye view of the history of Spanish
Spanish as an Indo-European language
Spain before Latin
The Roman conquest
After Rome
The Reconquista
Spanish comes to the Americas
Modern times
Internal history
The sound changes that shaped Spanish words
Sources of Spanish words
Changes in meaning
Por and para
The many descendents of Latin ille ‘that’
The evolution of the Spanish verb system
Irregular yo verbs (-zco and -go)
Stem-changing verbs
The extreme irregularity of ser and ir
Drastic changes in the Latin noun system
References
Chapter 4: How does Spanish vary?
Dialects and multilingualism
Spanish dialects
Multilingualism in Spain
Multilingualism in Latin America
Code-switching
Language features
Variation in Spanish pronunciation
Weakening or deletion of final s
Yeísmo, seseo, and ceceo
Deleting d between vowels
Puerto Rican r
Vocabulary
Leísmo
Subject pronouns
Non-standard verb forms
Variation in verb use
References
Chapter 5: How do people learn and use Spanish?
Learning Spanish
Motherese ("baby talk")
Order of acquisition of consonants
First words
Learning semantic contrasts
Noun agreement
Order of acquisition of verb tenses
Learning to conjugate
Second-language learning
Using Spanish
Speech errors
Language and thought
Spanish "Pig Latin"
References
Appendix A. In-class activities
Appendix B. Take-home projects
Appendix C: Slides
Index
Author(s)
Biography
Judy Hochberg has a PhD in linguistics from Stanford University and teaches Spanish at Fordham University, New York. She is the author of ¿Por qué? 101 Questions about Spanish (2016) and blogs at spanishlinguist.us.