TEACHING SPANISH AS A HERITAGE LANGUAGE IN THE UNITED STATES: SOCIOECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL REASONS THAT JUSTIFY ITS UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTION IN THE 2020S

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https://doi.org/10.7203/Normas.v11i1.21253

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Spanish heritage language, heritage speakers, sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, Spanish in the United States

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The pedagogy of Spanish as a heritage language is an academic discipline with increasing demand at the universities in the United States. This is due to a series of social, economic, and educational reasons that present a national reality quite different from the one that prevailed at the end of the last century. This article reviews some of the most relevant causes, such as the demographic increase of the Hispanic population, the improvement of their purchasing power, a greater social acceptance regarding bilingualism, and a deep development in the research and teaching of heritage languages. In a situation in which the Hispanic community has exceeded 60 million people, surpassed Spain’s GDP, and is more present than ever in higher education, it is essential to promote university instruction aimed at recovering competence in Spanish of this profile of speakers if we want to maintain and enhance their linguistic development during the next ten years.

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Erik Garabaya Casado, Universidad de Oviedo / University of Utah

Graduate Teaching Assistant en la University of Utah, Estados Unidos. Grado en Lenguas Modernas y sus Literaturas, Universidad de Oviedo, España, 2015-2019. Máster Universitario de Español como Lengua Extranjera, Universidad de Oviedo, España, 2019-2020. Estudiante de doctorado en Investigaciones Humanísticas en la Universidad de Oviedo (2020-2023) y estudiante de máster en Language Pedagogy in Spanish en la University of Utah (2020-2022).

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2021-12-02

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Garabaya Casado, E. (2021). TEACHING SPANISH AS A HERITAGE LANGUAGE IN THE UNITED STATES: SOCIOECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL REASONS THAT JUSTIFY ITS UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTION IN THE 2020S. Normas, 11(1), 69–83. https://doi.org/10.7203/Normas.v11i1.21253
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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2021)

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