PROGRAM

3rd Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language 
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​Thursday, February 18th, 2016 
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4:30 Registration. Ford Alumni Ballroom.

5:00-5:30 OPENING REMARKS. Ford Alumni Ballroom.
         Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Director of the SHL program at the University of Oregon.
         Superintendent of School District 4j, Eugene, OR, Gustavo Balderas.

5:30-6:30   Plenary Speaker 1: Jennifer Leeman. George Mason University.
         Title: A critical view of SHL: Speaking back to the neoliberal university
         Place: Ford Alumni Ballroom
 
6:30 Welcome Reception. Ford Alumni Ballroom.
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​Friday, February 19th, 2016 

8:00-8:45 Light breakfast. GSH Great Hall.
 
8:45-9:00 Superintendent of School District 4j, Springfield, OR, Susan Rieke-Smit.

9:00 Plenary Speaker 2: Susana Rivera-Mills
         Title: Beyond Mexican Food: Latinos in Oregon and Implications for Heritage Language Teaching
         Place: GSH Great hall
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10:00-11:50 BEAN EAST
Classroom Research and Assessment
Chair: Doralba Pérez Ibañez

• Overcoming Placement Challenges: New Opportunities for Spanish Language Heritage Learners. Marta Fairclough, University of Houston. Randal Barrette, Avant assessment.
• Spanish oral language proficiency assessments and TWI heritage language learners: Multimodal language. Amy Young and Christina Karahisarlidis, New York University.
• Surveying proficiency of Spanish heritage learners in a small liberal-arts college. Elena Aldea Agudo, Jessica Cox, Jialing Liu, and KathrinTheumer, Franklin and Marshall College.

10:00-11:50 MOORE DINING
​Identities, Ideologies, and Language Choice
Chair: Melinda Boettcher

• Social Network Sites & Translanguaging (or Not). Linda Lemus, University of Arizona.
• Reframing New Mexican Spanish through Spanglish: Language Ideologies, Attitudes, and Lexical Choices in Mexican-Nuevomexicano Families. Lillian Gorman, University of Arizona.
• Family Letters: a Linguistic Analysis of the Personal Correspondence of a Mexican American Family. Isabel Velazquez and Kate Mendell, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

10:00-11:50 BEAN WEST
Formal Studies and Cognition
Chair: Elizabeth Valdez

• La percepción de cognates a través del lenguaje y la cognición: Una exploración psicolingüística. David Beard, Miami University.
• Heritage language learners’ knowledge of derivative word forms. Eve Zyzik, UC Santa Cruz.
• Metaknowledge and Metalinguistic Strategies in the Spanish for Heritage Learners Classroom: a Curriculum Redesign. Flavia Belpoliti, and Elisa Gironzetti, Texas A&M University Commerce.

12:00-1:00 Lunch Break - BEAN WEST

1:00-2:40 BEAN EAST
Workshop #1
Chair: Amy Costales
The problem with placement: dual immersion students and college Spanish.
Amanda Filloy Sharp, Gloria Kussalanant,
Alicia Ward-Satey,
Corvallis High School

1:00-2:40 MOORE DINING
Identities, Ideologies, and Attitudes
Chair: Rafael Arias Anrango

• Actitudes y percepciones de los hablantes de herencia en el contexto de estudios en el extranjero. Munia Cabal Jiménez, Western Illinois University.
• Development of a self-report instrument to measure Spanish HS’ attitudes toward their heritage language. Jocelly Meiners and Delia Montesinos, University of Texas at Austin.
• Problematizing Spanish Heritage Language Identities: HL Speakers of Mexican Descent Studying Abroad. Rebecca Pozzi, and Lina Reznicek-Parrado, UC Davis.

1:00-2:40 BEAN WEST
Formal Studies (1)
Chair: Iñaki Gonzalo

• Variable placement in heritage language. Anita Kemp, University of Oregon.
• Differentiated Teaching in the beginning-level SHL classroom: Examples using the Subjunctive. Stephanie Brock, and Andrea Herrera Dulcet, University of Arizona.
• The Effects of Community and Complexity on HS’ Production of Subjunctive Forms. David Giancaspro, Rutgers University.

2:40-3:10 Refreshment Break - BEAN WEST

3:10-4:50 BEAN EAST
SHL and Portuguese
Chair: Alex Zunterstein

• Teaching Portuguese to speakers of Spanish as L2 and as a Heritage Language. Simone Da Silva, University of Oregon.
• Professional Development for Educators of Portuguese as a Heritage Language. Luciana Lessa Rodrigues, Georgia State University. Felícia Jennings-Winterle, Brasil em Mente.
• “My Spanish is a jumble”: Linguistic Insecurities in teachers with low prestige dialects. Trudie McEvoy, University of Arizona.

3:10-4:50 MOORE DINING
Phonetics and Phonology
Chair: Julio Torres

• The production of rhotics in Spanish: a comparison of native speakers and heritage speakers of differing proficiency levels. C. Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda, University of Houston.
• Spanish heritage speakers’ phonological competence. Marisol Garrido, Eastern Michigan University.
• Metalinguistic intuitions regarding syllabification in heritage and native speakers of Spanish. Michael Shelton, Occidental College. David Counselman, Ohio Wesleyan University. Nicolás Gutiérrez, Universidad de Jaén.

​3:10-4:50 BEAN WEST
Classroom Research and Service Learning
Chair: Nagore Sedano

• Spanish heritage language learner attitudes: The benefits of community service-learning. Diego Pascual y Cabo, Josh De la Rosa Prada, Texas Tech University. Kelly Lowther Pereira, The University of North Carolina – Greensboro.
• Communities and connections: Service-learning for Spanish heritage speakers. Kelly Lowther Pereira, The University of North Carolina – Greensboro.
• Content & Consciousness Inside and Outside the Classroom: Advantages of Community-based Assignments. Kelley León-Howarth, University of Oregon.

5:30-6:30 Evening Reception - GSH GREAT HALL

6:30 Spanglish Concurso Awards - GHS GREAT HALL

7:00-8:00 Bill Santiago- GHS GREAT HALL


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​Saturday, February 20th, 2016    
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8:00- 9:00 Light Breakfast. GSH Back Hall 

9:30-10:40 GHS 117
Workshop #2
Chair: Munia Cabal Jiménez
Our learning curve for building a service learning course with Spanish heritage speakers
María Ciriza-Lope
Marco Shappeck
Steven Arxer
University of North Texas at Dallas

9:30-10:40 ROOM 130
Classroom Research and Writing
Chair: Macarena Tejada-López

• Orthography in the writing of Beginner Spanish Heritage Learners. Encarna Bermejo, Houston Baptist University. Flavia Belpoliti, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
• Te lo pido por favor: El conocimiento de normas pragmáticas en las peticiones electrónicas entre hablantes de español como lengua heredada. Chelsea Escalante, UC Davis.
• Elliptical tener que: Evidence from Twitter corpora. Melissa Vega-Valdez, and Aaron Yamada, UC Davis.

9:30-10:40 ROOM 131
Formal Studies (2)
Chair: Diego Pascual y Cabo

• Development and validation of a placement instrument for Heritage Language Learners of Spanish. Evelyn Duran Urrea and Beatriz Lado, Lehman College, CUNY.
• Usos y Omisiones del artículo definido en sintagmas nominales en el español de hablantes de herencia. Rosalva Alamillo. University of Houston.
• Explaining Heritage Spanish Transfer attrition or universal principles? Zuzanna Fuchs, Harvard University. Gregory Scontras, Stanford University. María Polinsky, University of Maryland.

10:40-10:55  Coffee break 

10:55-12:00 GSH 117
Authentic Materials
Chair: Luz Romero-Montaño

• Las series televisivas como factor de motivación en hablantes hispanos de herencia en la Universidad en Nueva York. Lorena García Barroso, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
• User- Generated Materials for Heritage Spanish Project: Locally produced, locally used. José Esteban Hernández, Mark Cisneros, Estela Hernández, Blanca Jaimes-Luna, Víctor Tijerina, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. Yanina Hernández, Texas State Technical College_Harlinge.

10:55-12:00 ROOM 130
Contact and Linguistic Variation
Chair: Josh Delarosa-Prada

• Chapines in Chicanolandia: Contact Amongst the Spanishes of Los Angeles. Ana Sánchez Muñoz, and Daisy González, California State University, Northridge.
• El español andino como lengua de herencia y el bilingüismo quechua-español en el Perú. Eunice Cortez, Lehigh University.

10:55-12:00 ROOM 131
Classroom research
Chair: Sebastián Urioste

• Exploring interaction between heritage and second language learners in the Spanish classroom. Ana Fernández Dobao, University of Washington.
• The heritage language as a complex adaptive system: Practical applications of usage-based linguistic. Damián Vergara Wilson, University of New Mexico.

12:00 -1:00 Lunch Break. GSH Back Hall

1:00-2:40 GHS 117
Workshop #3
Chair: Simone Da Silva
Beyond 'cool': Integrating technology in the heritage language classroom.
Florencia Henshaw
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
 
1:00-2:40 ROOM 130
Multiliteracies and Critical Pedagogies
Chair: Licia Aldana

• Teaching Acting in Spanish for Heritage Speakers (non-Actors). Olga Sanchez Saltveit, University of Oregon Theatre Arts.
• What’s next?: Heritage language learners shape new paths in Spanish teaching. Julio Torres, UC Irvine. Diego Pascual y Cabo and John Beusterien, Texas Tech University.
• La clase de lingüística: un espacio para aprendizaje y autoempoderamiento como hablante de herencia. Luz María Hernández, University of Oregon.

1:00-2:40 ROOM 131
SHL Program Challenges
Chair: Jordan Clementi

• The History of the Longest-Running Program of Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States. Carlos Enrique Ibarra and Karol Ibarra-Zetter, University of New Mexico. 
• Spanish for Heritage Learners at Portland State. Robert Sanders and Elena Avilés, Portland State University.
• The road to be Taken: Becoming a Teacher of Spanish.  Carmen Cáceda, Western Oregon University.

2:45-3:15 Final remarks