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II Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

Thursday, February 12, 2015

OPENING REMARKS
5:00

Dr. Diego Pascual y Cabo, Director of SHL. Texas Tech University

Dr. Erin Collopy, Chair of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures. Texas Tech University

Dr. W. Brent Lindquist, Dean College of Arts & Sciences. Texas Tech University

Plenary Speaker : Dr. Mara Carreira. California State University at Long Beach
5:30

6:30

Title: Stories My Students Tell Me: The Role of Giftedness and Resilience in the
Maintenance and Development of Spanish
as Heritage Language
Place: Matador room, Student Union Building
Reception
Place: 2 nd Floor Lobby of Student Union Building

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Friday, February 13th 2015

8:30

II Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

Light Breakfast & Registration, Matador Lounge (Student Union Building)

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Guadalupe Valds, Stanford University

9:00

Title: Language Learners or Language Users? The Case of Heritage Language Students
Place: Matador Room, Student Union Building
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C LASSROOM R ESEARCH 1
Session Chair: J. Torres

R EGISTER
Session Chair: A. Llombart

F ORMAL S TUDIES 1
Session Chair: I. Gmez Soler

10:00 Advanced L2 & heritage learners The Discursive construction of

grammar: Implications for grammar heritage language learners: A
instruction. C. Burgo
corpus-based investigation. A.
Urzua

Heritage and intermediate

processing of person and number
features in Spanish. E.
Rodriguez & L. Reglero

The design and implementation of

task-based activities for SHL
10:30 beginner courses. C.E. Ibarra &
D. Poulin

Uso de conjunciones en la
produccin oral y escrita de
estudiantes de espaol como
lengua de herencia. R.
Alamillo Olivas

A Bi-directional study of Spanish

heritage speakers production,
acceptance and interpretation of
Bare and Definite Subjects. L.
Miller

Mixing it up! The perspectives of

Spanish-speaking heritage
11:00 learners in Spanish language
classes. N. Zimmerman

El registro acadmico oral en el

espaol de los Estados Unidos.
C. Viera

Que-drop in a corpus of Spanish

tweets. A. Rodriguez Riccelli

La traduccin como estrategia de

11:30 aprendizaje en la enseanza del
espaol como lengua de
herencia. L. Gasca Jimnez

El registro acadmico en espaol

en estudiantes de herencia
hispana. Un estudio de textos
expositivos. A. Garza

The Processing of two types of

case marking among early and late
Spanish-English bilinguals. J.
Jegerski

12:00

L UNCH B REAK

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C LASSROOM R ESEARCH 2
I DENTITY & A TTITUDES 1
Session Chair: F. Henshaw Session Chair: L. Reznicek-Parrado
1:30

2:00

2:30

3:00

3:30

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F ORMAL S TUDIES 2
Session Chair: J. Jegerski

Breaking paradigms: US
Spanish and metalinguistic
awareness in the SHL
classroom. C. Holgun
Mendoza &
R. Davis

Identidades gramaticales: La voz de los

estudiantes de herencia en Nuevo
Mexico. F. Melero-Garca & M.
Perara-Lunde

Qu estado est Lubbock en?

Considering Preposition
Stranding in Heritage Spanish.
D. Pascual y Cabo, I. Gmez
Soler & G. Mihalyov

La clase invertida como

propuesta pedaggico-crtica
a la enseanza de ELH. M.
Correa

These are the people that I belong

with: heritage learners narratives of
transformative experiences in the
classroom. J. Echternach

Focus realizations in native and

heritage Spanish.
T. Leal, E. Destruel & B.
Hoot

Just do it: Selecting the best Actitud hacia el bilingismo inglscourse book for your
espaol en estudiantes de secundaria
heritage students. A. Bello norteamericanos. C. Galvis
Expanding sociolinguistic
awareness through critical
pedagogy: the case of
advanced Spanish grammar.
S. Schulman & A.
Cisneros
Refreshment break

Building self-esteem through heritage

language development. The case of
chicanas/os. A. Snchez-Muoz

Utilizing elicited imitation

tasks in order to measure
Spanish heritage speakers
proficiency. C. Chomn
Zamora

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W ORKSHOP 1

4:00

4:30

5:00

5:30

6:30

Issues in Developing a
Heritage Language
Program

Julio Torres
Alegra Ribadeneira
Evelyn Durn
Beatriz Lado
Damin Wilson
Becky Halloran
Jordan Garrett

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I DENTITY & A TTITUDES 2

Session Chair: A. Snchez Muoz

C LASSROOM R ESEARCH 3
Session Chair: C. Holgun

Spanglish: El debate academico en la

comunidad local de jvenes hablantes
de herencia. L. Reznicek-Parrado

Cohesion in emerging literacy of

Spanish heritage learners: shaping
novice discourse. F. Belpoliti

All in the family? Heritage Spanish

speakers and their parents
negotiating linguistic and cultural
identities. C. Stafford & C. FontSantiago

The speech fluency of Hispanic

heritage speakers in comparison to
native speakers in formal
academic. M. Ciriza & M.
Shappeck

The placelessness of place:

Addressing diversity in a Spanish as a
heritage language classroom through
a place-based curriculum. T.
McEvoy, B. Holmes, & L. Lemus

La escuela donde los estudiantes

se van tienen internet y poner la
gente puede habla escribir y poner
cosas personales: Verb Lexis
Processing in Heritage Learners.
E. Bermejo

Cmo vivir sin lmites in an English

only state: Latino youth biliteracy
projects success in Promoting
Biliteracy and Biculturalism in
Northwest Arkansas. J. Arnhart

Lexical creations of heritage

language Spanish speakers of
different levels. A. Yakel

Reception
Place: The Matador Room/Lounge (Student Union Building)

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8:30

9:00

II Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language

Light Breakfast & Registration, Matador Lounge (Student Union Building)

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, University of Texas at Austin
Title: Cultivating language resources closer to home
Place: Matador Room, Student Union Building
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W ORKSHOP 2
Session Chair:

C LASSROOM R ESEARCH 3
Session Chair: F. Belpoliti

F ORMAL S TUDIES 3
Session Chair: B. Hoot

Acquisition and development of spelling

in Spanish heritage language learners:
"Meeting the needs of L2 Phonological and Morphological
and HL learners in mixed Awareness, and the effect of Analogy.
classes without sending A. Llombart-Huesca
mixed messages"
Heritage speaker writing competence
10:30
and assessment through identity-based,
Florencia Henshaw student centered exams and portfolios.
Melissa Bowles
O. Santos-Sopena & A. Reynolds
10:00

Spanish heritage speakers vs. L2

learners: Do writing skills differ after
completing tailor-made and general
content courses? P. Camus Oyarzun &
S. Adrada-Rafael

11:00

11:30

12:00

Ensayos bilinges y la autocorreccion a

travs de la escritura libre. J. Oliver
Rajn
Lunch break

Accentedness in the L3 French

of English-speaking Spanish
heritage children and teens.
P. Lpez-Morelos & R. Llama
Differentiation and
neutralization of taps and trills
by native and heritage speakers
of Spanish. E.Goodin-Mayeda
Subjunctive attrition in the
Tijuana-San Diego border
region. R. Mata & J. Moore
Tracking language change: A
usage-based approach to
heritage bilingual acquisition.
J. Torres

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1:00

1:30

2:00

2:30

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C LASSROOM RESEARCH 4
Session Chair: N. Anderson

I DENTITY & A TTITUDES 3

Session Chair: C. Stafford

C LASSROOM R ESEARCH 5
Session Chair: S. Adrada

Problematizing restrictive
labels for a heterogeneous
Spanish class. E. Goulette

Validating heritage languages in

the language for specific purposes
classroom. R. Romero

El translingualismo en
hablantes de herencia: enseanza
del espaol a travs de la
traduccin.M. Garca-Avello &
M. Gmez-Martn

Spanish as a heritage
language in US higher
education. M. Tecedor
Cabrero & B. Meja

Testimonios de ocho mujeres

chicanas y su lengua de herencia en
la zona fronteriza del Ro Grande.
J. D. Montiel

Enter to learn, salir para

servir: youth participatory action
research as core content in high
school Spanish para
hispanohablantes courses. J.
Cushing-Leubner & J. Eik

Cooperative learning and

foreign language anxiety in
Spanish heritage students. M.
Tallon

Understanding the inheritors: The

The Camino: Teaching the Llano
perception of beginning-level
Estacado as heritage site. J.
students toward their SHL program. Beusterien
D. Wilson & C.E. Ibarra

Concluding Remarks
Business meeting