The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Editorial Board

1. Introduction.

Manel Lacorte

Part I: Issues and environments in Spanish learning and teaching

2.     Spanish Second Language Acquisition.

Julio Torres

3.     Methodological Approaches and Realities.

Manel Lacorte, Daniel Moríñigo Rodríguez , and Caroline Trevisan

4.     Teacher Education and Professionalization.

Julián López Medina , Juliana Gómez Medina , Susana Pastor Cesteros, and Manel Lacorte

5.     Program Articulation and Administration.

Christina Isabelli-García , Alan V. Brown, and Gillian Lord

6.     Hispanic Literatures and Cultures Throughout the Curriculum.

Kimberly A. Nance

7.     Technological Contexts for Teaching Spanish.

Idoia Elola  and Ana Oskoz

8.     Digital Literacies.

Leticia-Tian Zhang , Liudmila Shafirova , and Boris Vazquez-Calvo

9.     Assessment and Evaluation of Spanish.

Marta Tecedor Cabrero  and Inmaculada Gómez Soler

10.  Spanish as a Heritage Language.

Marta Fairclough and Óscar Loureda Lamas

11.  Spanish for Populations with Emerging Literacy.

Lisa Auslander , Ann Ebe (Hunter College), Marcin Sosinski , and María Jesús Llorente Puerta

12.  Critical Approaches to Teaching Spanish.

Tracy Quan and Paula Andrea Echeverri-Sucerquia

Part II: Spanish in Professional Contexts

13.           Translation.

Miguel Á. Jiménez-Crespo

14.           Interpreting Reenvisioned.

Luis Cerezo and E. Macarena Pradas Macías

15.           Spanish Lexicography.

Moisés Almela and David Prieto García-Seco

16.           Computational Hispanic Linguistics.

Mariona Taulé , Mireia Farrús Cabeceran , and Manuel Montes-y-Gómez

17.           Hispanic Corpus Linguistics.

Guillermo Rojo and Irene Renau

18.           Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Spanish Language. Javier Muñoz-Basols and María del Mar Palomares Marín

19.           Publishing.

Elisa Gironzetti  and Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez

20.           Language Context Creation, Multicultural Media Production.

Juncal Gutiérrez-Artacho and Francisco Ruiz-Rodríguez

21.           Study Abroad and Language Tourism.

Kim Griffin  and Carlos Burgos Jara

22.           Forensic Spanish. Sheila Queralt.

23.           Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Lilly B. Padía and María Rosa Brea

24.           Advancing Research in Hispanic Applied Linguistics.

Elisa Gironzetti  and Javier Muñoz-Basols

Part III: The discourses of Spanish

25.           Academic and Professional Discourse.

Adriana Bolívar (Universidad Central de Venezuela), Federico Navarro (Universidad de O’Higgins), and Cecilia Colombi (University of California-Davis)

26.           Discourse in Administrative and Educational Institutions

Isolda E. Carranza and Germán Canale

27.           Media Discourse.

Jorge Jiménez-Ramírez  and Edgardo García

28.           Commercial Discourse.

Carmen López Ferrero and Cristian González Arias

29.           Discourse, Communication, and Health

Guiomar Ciapuscio (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Rosa Estopà

30.           Intercultural Communication Discourse

Sandra López-Rocha  and Elisabeth Arévalo-Guerrero

31.           Politics and Discourse.

Elvira N. de Arnoux and Juan E. Bonnin

32.           Online Discourses

Agnese Sampietro and Alejandro Parini

Part IV: Social and political contexts for Spanish

33.           The politics of Spanish in the World

Daniela Lauria and María Florencia Rizzo

34.           Language Policy and Planning: Spanish in the US.

Reynaldo F. Macías

35.           Language Policy and Planning: Latin America.

Juan C. Godenzzi  Lorena Córdova Hernández

36.           Language Policy and Planning: Spain and Europe.

Henrique Monteagudo and Eva Gugenberger -

37.           Language Policy and Planning: Africa and Asia.

Javier Serrano Avilés

38.           Spanish Language and Migrations.

Francisco Moreno-Fernández

39.           Attitudes toward Geographical and Social Varieties of Spanish.

Carlos Soler Montes

40.           Raciolinguistics and Spanish.

José Magro and Eva Michelle Wheeler

Index

Biography

Manel Lacorte (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics at the University of Maryland. His research explores pedagogical and sociopolitical issues in teaching Spanish as a second language and heritage language, teacher education, and general issues in applied linguistics. His most recent works include Multiliteracies, Multimodality, and Learning by Design in Second Language Learning and Teacher Education (2025, Routledge).