1st Edition

The Peer-Effect: Non-Traditional Models of Instruction in Spanish as a Heritage Language

By Lina M. Reznicek-Parrado Copyright 2023
200 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Peer Effect: Non-Traditional Models of Instruction in Spanish as a Heritage Language guides an important pedagogical conversation on the relevance of heritage language and literacy practices as resources for instruction, framing heritage teaching and learning as a social justice issue. Presenting ethnographic and discourse analyses of a heritage peer tutoring program at a university in... Read more

Foreword by Damián Wilson Vergara

Introduction: Teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language: A Social Justice Issue

Chapter 1: Peer-to-peer Tutors in a California Heritage Language Program

Chapter 2: Hybrid Literacy Practices in a Translingual Academic Space

Chapter 3: Translanguaging for Academic Literacy Development and Community Building

Chapter 4: The Peer as the Expert: Tutors Mobilizing Academic Personas

Chapter 5: The Peer as Ally: Tutors Creating Community in an Academic Space

Chapter 6: Students’ Hybrid Language Practices at the Core of SHL Pedagogy: How to Foster Equitable Pedagogies in SHL

Biography

Lina M. Reznicek-Parrado is Teaching Assistant Professor of Spanish and Founding Director of the Spanish Program for Heritage and Bilingual Speakers at the University of Denver, USA.