TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
Friday February 21, 2014
7:30
8:15
8:30
Light Breakfast & Registration
Opening remarks:
Dr. Diego Pascual y Cabo (on behalf of the organizing committee)
Dr. Erin Collopy, Chair of Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures at Texas Tech University
Dr. Juan Muñoz, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Senior Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement
SENATE ROOM
LUBBOCK ROOM
CLASSROOM RESEARCH
Session Chair: Joshua Frank
PERCEPTIONS & ATTITUDES & MOTIVATION
Session Chair: Lillian Gorman
“Lexical creation: Spanish Heritage Learners’ exploitation of the
Spanish and English derivational systems.”
Flavia Belpoliti (University of Houston) & Encarna Bermejo (Houston
“Percepciones de los hablantes de herencia y de los instructores en la clase
de español.”
Adrián Bello, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9:00
“Competencia léxica y comprensión de lectura en los estudiantes de
español como lengua de herencia.” Edna Velásquez, University of
Houston.
“Hispanic families’ attitude towards their heritage language in Houston and
its suburbs.”
Edgar Vargas, University of Houston.
9:30
“Semantic transparency in the interpretation of N+N and V+N
Spanish Compounds: Age of onset of bilingualism effects.”
Patricia González, St. Mary’s University.
“Motivación, persistencia y estrategias de padres bilingües que enseñan a
sus hijos español como idioma de herencia en Texas.”
Kenny Montgomery, University of Houston.
“The Personal Essay and Academic Writing Proficiency in Spanish
Heritage Language Development.”
Lina Reznicek-Parrado, University of California, Davis.
“Issues of Linguistic Tolerance: Addressing Dialect Diversity in Los Angeles
Public Elementary Schools.”
Belén Villarreal, UCLA.
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10:00
10:30
REFRESHMENT BREAK
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
Friday February 21, 2014
SENATE ROOM
10:45
11:15
11:45
12:15
1:15
1:45
PHONOLOGY
Session Chair: Valerie Trujillo
“Voice onset time of /p, t, k/ among heritage speakers of Spanish: Two
phonological grammars?”
Earl Brown & Mary Copple, Kansas State University.
CLASSROOM RESEARCH
Session Chair: Kelly Lowther Pereira
“The Alchemy of (HLL/SLL) Learner-Learner Interactions.” Jesse Abing,
“Adquisición de las oclusivas sordas por trilingüés: /ptk/ en el ingles y
el francés (L2/L3)de hablantes de herencia hispanos en Canadá.”
Luz Patricia López-Morelos, Raquel Llama, & Myriam Lapierre,
University of Ottawa.
“Reframing Authority in Spanish Heritage Language Classroom Interaction.”
Rachel Showstack, Wichita State University.
“Emergence of the voiced labiodental fricative segment [v] in Texas
Spanish.”
Adriano Trovato, University of Texas at Austin.
“La clase como comunidad local/global: Latina/o Spanish Heritage
Language Classes in the Mid-Atlantic.”
Evelyn Canabal-Torres & Ana Patricia Rodríguez, University of Maryland.
University of Texas at Austin.
Lunch break
FORMAL APPROACHES
Session Chair:Earl Brown
“Code-switching effects on naturalistic code-switching.” Diana
Pedraza & Whitman Suárez, University of Texas at Austin
CLASSROOM RESEARCH
Session Chair: Florencia Giglio Henshaw
“Pedagogical implications of research into the language experience of
college-age heritage speakers in communities with low vitality for Spanish.”
Isabel Velázquez, University of Nebraska.
“The Effects of Language Contact on Variable Phenomena: The case
of clitic climbing in Spanish-English heritage bilinguals.” Ana de
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Prada Pérez , Adrián Rodríguez Ricelli , Kelly Woodfine & Sarah
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Rogers (University of Florida & University of Texas at Austin ).
La importancia del proceso selectivo de ubicación en las clases de español
para hablantes de herencia.” Efraín Garza, University of Northern Colorado.
2:15
2:45
LUBBOCK ROOM
Refreshment Break
“‘Corrígeme bien’: Spanish Heritage Speakers as Peer Assessors.”
Julia Oliver-Rajan & Christine Shea, University of Iowa.
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
Friday February 21, 2014
3:15
3:45
4:15
5:00
6:15
7:30
SENATE ROOM
LUBBOCK ROOM
FORMAL APPROACHES
Session Chair: Whitman Suárez
OUR HERITAGE
Session Chair: Belén Villareal
“A comparative analysis of two heritage speaker populations.”
Valerie Trujillo, University of Florida
“Herencias hispanas encontradas: historias orales en fronteras artificiales.”
Òscar Oliver Santos-Sopena, West Texas A&M University.
“Structure overlap effects in SPAN/ENG bilinguals: Evidence from the
syntax-semantics interface”. Joshua Frank, University of Texas at
Austin
“The Inherited Past in Present Day Spanish: The Case for LA Spanish.”
Armando Guerrero, UCLA.
“Ambiguity resolution in Spanish heritage speakers: Target structure
makes a difference.”
Bill VanPatten (Michigan State University), Gregory Keating (San
Diego State University) & Jill Jegerski (University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign)
“Spanish as a Heritage Language Tool”
Jóse López (Ralls ISD
SENATE ROOM
Special panel with parents, students, and educators
SENATE ROOM
Plenary I :
Marta Fairclough, University of Houston
Title:
“Can Second Dialect Acquisition Principles Contribute to Understanding the Learning Process of Adult Spanish
Heritage Language Students?”
Reception at the Matador Lounge
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
Saturday February 22, 2014
Workshop on teaching Spanish as a Heritage Language
SENATE ROOM
7:30
Light Breakfast & Registration
9:00
Plenary II :
Title:
10:15
Kim Potowski, University of Illinois at Chicago
“U.S. Spanish: Myths and facts”
“Creating spaces for Identity, Latinidad, and Sociolinguistic
Awareness in the Spanish for Heritage Learners Classroom.” Lillian
Gorman, University of Illinois at Chicago
11:10
“Incorporating Community Engagement in the Curriculum: ServiceLearning for Spanish Heritage Speakers.”
Kelly Lowther Pereira, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
12:05
Lunch
1:00
“Flipping the Spanish Heritage Classroom: A Focus on Writing.”
Julio Torres, University of Albany, State University of New York.
1:55
“The Role of Fluency in Second Language Reading Comprehension:
Building Input and Language Experience for Adult Learners of
Heritage Languages.” Greta Gorsuch, Texas Tech University.
2:25
“The Best of Both Worlds? Advantages and Disadvantages of L2-HL
Peer Collaboration.” Florencia Giglio Henshaw, University of Illinois
3:20
Refreshment break
3:30
“Educating Today’s Bilingual Students and Tomorrow’s Bilingual
Leaders.” Joshua Frank & Jesse Abing, University of Texas at Austin.
4:25
“Heritage Speakers on the Northern Border of the U.S.: Same issues,
different language.” Joseph Price, Texas Tech University.
5:00
Closing Remarks
at Urbana-Champaign.