Mi lengua : Spanish as a heritage language in the United States, research and practice / Ana Roca and M. Cecilia Colombi, editors.

Other author Roca, Ana.
Other author Colombi, María Cecilia, 1955-
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2003.
Descriptionx, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Spanish language--Study and teaching. --United States.
Spanish language--Acquisition.
Education, Bilingual--United States.
Hispanic Americans--Education.

Contents Insights from research and practice in Spanish as a heritage language / M. Cecilia Colombi and Ana Roca -- Toward a theory of heritage language acquisition : Spanish in the United States / Andrew Lynch -- Profiles of SNS students in the twenty-first century : pedagogical implications of changing demographics and social status of U.S. Hispanics / María M. Carreira -- Un enfoque funcional para la enseñanza del ensayo expositivo / M. Cecilia Colombi --
Contents La enseñanza del español en Nuevo México : revitalización o erradicación de la variedad chicana? / Ysaura Bernal-Enriquez and Eduardo Hernández Chávez -- "Spanish in my blood" : children's Spanish language development in dual-language immersion programs / Ernestina Pesina Hernández, Hinako Takahashi-Breines and Rebecca Blum-Martínez -- Minority perspectives on language : Mexican and Mexican-American adolescents' attitudes toward Spanish and English / Karen Beckstead and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio --
Contents META : a model for the continued acquisition of Spanish by Spanish/English bilinguals in the United States / Roberto Luis Carrasco and Florencia Riegelhaupt -- La enseñanza del español a los hispanohablantes bilingües y su efecto en la producción oral / Marta Fairclough and N. Ariana Mrak -- Academic registers in Spanish in the U.S. : a study of oral texts produced by bilingual speakers in a university graduate program / Mariana Achugar -- No me suena! heritage Spanish speakers' writing strategies / Ana María Schwartz -- Navegando a través del registro formal : curso para hispanohablantes bilingües / Rebeca Acevedo -- Spanish print environments : implications for heritage language development / Sandra Liliana Pucci.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002014712
ISBN0878409033 (pbk. : alk. paper)