E-JournALL, 2(2), December 2015. Special Issue: Spanish as a Heritage Language

Volume 2, Issue 2, December 2015

EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages

Special Issue

Spanish as a Heritage Language Guest Editor Diego Pascual y Cabo

Volume 2, Issue 2, December 2015 Copyright © 2015. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. ISSN: ISSN 2376-905X

Co-Editors in Chief Laura Di Ferrante Elisa Gironzetti

Editorial Team Co-Editors in Chief Laura Di Ferrante Elisa Gironzetti Associate Editor Katie A. Bernstein Guest Editor Diego Pascual y Cabo for this issue Board Laura Alba-Juez Lucía Aranda Janice Aski Salvatore Attardo Sonia Bailini Paolo Balboni Nancy Bell Flavia Belpoliti Diana Boxer Antonio Briz Steven Brown Maria Vittoria Calvi Richard Cauldwell Rubén Chacón-Beltrán Marina Chini Viviana Cortés Lidia Costamagna Eric Friginal Giuliana Garzone Carlo Guastalla Joaquim Llisterri Okim Kang Francisco Matte Bon Javier Muñoz-Basols Amanda Murphy Xose A. Padilla Susana Pastor Cesteros Lucy Pickering María Elena Placencia Diana Popa Elisabetta Santoro Israel Sanz-Sánchez Laurel Stvan Ron Thompson Paolo Torresan Eduardo Urios-Aparisi Graciela E. Vázquez Costabeber Massimo Vedovelli Veronica Vegna Miriam Voghera Manuela Wagner Coordinators Manuel José Aguilar Ruiz Valeria Buttini Stefania Marinoni Communication Staff Shigehito Menjo Roberta Vassallo Community Manager Mónica Hidalgo Martín and Graphic Designer

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia Texas A&M University—Commerce, USA Arizona State University Texas Tech University UNED, España University of Hawaii, USA The Ohio State University, USA Texas A&M University—Commerce, USA Università Cattolica di Milano, Italia Università Ca’ Foscari, Italia Washington State University, USA Texas A&M University—Commerce, USA University of Florida, USA Universidad de Valencia, España Youngstown State University, USA Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia Speech in Action, UK UNED, España Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italia Georgia State University, USA Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italia Georgia State University, USA Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia Alma Edizioni, Italia Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, España Northern Arizona University, USA Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, Italia University of Oxford, UK Università Cattolica di Milano, Italia Universidad de Alicante, Españaù Universidad de Alicante, España Texas A&M University—Commerce, USA Birkbeck, University of London, UK Universitatea Dunărea de Jos din Galați, România Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil West Chester University, USA University of Texas at Arlington, USA Brock University, Canada Alma Edizioni, Italia University of Connecticut, USA Freie Universität Berlin, Bundesrepublik Deutschland Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italia The University of Chicago, USA Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italia University of Connecticut, USA Translators Kathryn Baecht and Proofreaders Ombretta Bassani Monica Rita Bedana Marilisa Birello Massimiliano Bonatto Emilio Ceruti Geoffrey Clegg Vinicio Corrias Rocío García Romero Bill Lancaster Emily Linares

Sara Kangas Giuseppe Maugeri Alberto Miras Fernández Luca Morazzano Angela Mura Cynthia Murphy Marta Pilar Montañez Mesas Consuelo Valentina Riso Beatriz Tapiador Weihua Zhu

We thank the anonymous reviewers who contributed to the quality of this issue

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Table of contents Introduction

Understanding the Spanish heritage language speaker/learner

1-10

Heritage and L2 processing of person and number features in Spanish SV sentences

11-30

Diego Pascual y Cabo and Josh DeLaRosa-Prada

Articles Estrella Rodríguez and Lara Reglero

Spanish heritage language learners vs. L2 learners: What CAF reveals about written proficiency

31-49

Pablo Camus and Sergio Adrada-Rafael

“Spanglish”: Bringing the academic debate into the classroom. Towards critical pedagogy in Spanish heritage instruction

50-66

Lina M. Reznicek-Parrado

Identidades gramaticales: perspectivas estudiantiles hacia el aprendizaje y uso de gramática en una clase de SHL

67-84

Molly Ann Perara-Lunde and Fernando Melero-García

Understanding the inheritors: The perception of beginning-level students toward their Spanish as a Heritage Language program

85-101

Damián Vergara Wilson & Carlos Enrique Ibarra

Reviews

Silva-Corvalán, Carmen. (2014). Bilingual language acquisition: Spanish and English in the first six years. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press.

102-105

Carmen Ruiz-Sánchez

Austin Jennifer, Blume María, & Sánchez Liliana (2015). Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world: linguistic and cognitive perspectives. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

106-109

Maria I. Fionda

Beaudrie, Sara, Ducar, Cynthia, & Potowski, Kim (2014). Heritage language teaching: Research and practice. New York, New York: McGraw Hill.

110-113

Florencia Henshow

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