Project 5:
FOSTERING CRITICAL LANGUAGE AWARENESS IN TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS
With the number of Spanish heritage classes and bilingual students being on the rise (Beaudrie, Amezcua & Loza, 2021), there is a pressing need to incorporate pedagogical practices that foster inclusivity and challenge dominant language ideologies (Holguín-Mendoza, 2018; Leeman, 2012; Lacorte & Magro, 2021; inter alia). This necessity is particularly dire at the K-12 level, where teachers oftentimes lack the training to deconstruct their own –as well as their students’– linguistic beliefs to offer a more socially-conscious instruction (Hudgens-Henderson & Hackman, 2021).
Following the work of Beaudrie et al. (2021) and Wilson & Marcin (2022), this project examines the preexisting linguistic beliefs of 35 participants (20 pre and in-service Spanish teachers and 15 undergraduate students) and explores their development during a 15-week course focused on Spanish dialectal variation. A wide array of data sources (students’ reading annotations, weekly reflections, and results from a survey administered at the start and the end of the course) will be presented to show how those enrolled increased their awareness about key issues in the study of language and communication (i.e. linguistic prescriptivism, dialectal discrimination and stigmatization or raciolinguistic ideologies).
Following the work of Beaudrie et al. (2021) and Wilson & Marcin (2022), this project examines the preexisting linguistic beliefs of 35 participants (20 pre and in-service Spanish teachers and 15 undergraduate students) and explores their development during a 15-week course focused on Spanish dialectal variation. A wide array of data sources (students’ reading annotations, weekly reflections, and results from a survey administered at the start and the end of the course) will be presented to show how those enrolled increased their awareness about key issues in the study of language and communication (i.e. linguistic prescriptivism, dialectal discrimination and stigmatization or raciolinguistic ideologies).