Community Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Learners (eBook)

Making connections and building identities

Pereira Kelly Lowther Pereira (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
258 Seiten
John Benjamins Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-90-272-6380-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book's purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language context, as well as to provide language educators and practitioners essential guidelines for designing community service-learning courses, with particular attention paid to the characteristics and needs of Spanish heritage language learners. This book presents compelling evidence demonstrating the central role community service-learning plays in developing heritage language learners' identities, connections to the heritage language community, language attitudes, and social, cultural, and sociolinguistic awareness. Importantly, this book also addresses the often-overlooked perspectives of community partners and liaisons. As the first original research monograph on community service-learning for Spanish heritage language learners, this pioneering book will undoubtedly aid students, instructors and administrators across all levels of language education.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 90-272-6380-9 / 9027263809
• ISBN-13: 978-90-272-6380-3 / 9789027263803