Mi lengua: Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States, Research and Practice

Contributors

Contributors RebecaAcevedo (Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997) is assistant professor of Spanish linguistics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Acevedo's area of specialization is historical Spanish and applied linguistics. Her recent publications include "Perspectiva hist6rica del paradigma verbal en el espanol de California" in Research on Spanish in the United States (2000), El espanol mexicano durante la Colonia: El paradigma verbal en el altiplano central (2000), and as a coauthor for A manera de ensayo (1998). Mariana Achugar (Ph.D. in Hispanic linguistics, University of California, Davis, 2002) is currently teaching in the Department of Language Teacher Education at the School for International Training in Vermont. Her research interests include academic language development and critical discourse analysis focusing on Spanish. Karen Beckstead graduated with honors from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was awarded Distinction in the Major. She earned her M.Ed. and California teaching credentials and currently serves as English language development department chair and International Baccalaureate Program coordinator at Dos Pueblos High School in Santa Barbara, California. Ysaura Bernal-Enriquez(Ph.D. in educational linguistics, University of New Mexico, 2002). Her dissertation "Tesoro Perdido" looks at sociohistorical factors in the loss of the Spanish language of la Nueva Mexico. Her general research interests are the linguistic, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic aspects in the maintenance, loss, and revitalization of Chicano Spanish. RebeccaBlum-MartInez(Ph.D. University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, 1993) is an associate professor in bilingual and ESL education in the Language, Literacy , and Sociocultural Studies Department in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico. She is currently working in the area of language revitalization. 292 Contributors Roberto Luis Carrasco (Ed.D. Harvard, 1985) is an associate professor of bilingual and multicultural education at Northern Arizona University. He received the outstanding dissertation competition award from the National Association for Bilingual Education in 1986. His research publications are in cultural anthropology, the ethnography of communication, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and bilingualism. Presently, he is the principal investigator of the White Mountain Apache/NAU Graduate Fellowship and Research program. MarfaM. Carreira (Ph.D. University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990) is associate professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach. Her research focuses on Spanish in the U.S., teaching Spanish to Hispanic bilinguals, and phonology. She was co-organizer ofthe first National Conference on Heritage Languages in America, held in Long Beach, California, in October 1999. In 2000, Carreira received second place as Outstanding Latina Educator for the state of California. M. Cecilia Colombi (Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988) is professor and associate language director at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include second language development, educational linguistics, and sociolinguistics with an emphasis on Spanish in the United States. Recent publications for which she is a coauthor include Developing Advanced Literacy in First and Second Language (2002); Palabra abierta (2001); and La ensenanza del espanol a hispanohablantes : Praxis y teona (1997). Marta Fairclough (Ph.D. University of Houston, 2001) is assistant professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Houston. Her research interests include heritage language education, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics with a focus on U.S. Spanish. Eduardo Hernandez Chavez (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1977) is associate professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque , where he also directs the Chicano Studies program. His publications include El Lenguaie de los Chicanos (1975), a seminal work in the field of Chicano sociolinguistics, along with numerous articles on the Spanish of the Southwest. His current work focuses on the maintenance and loss of Spanish and the language policies that motivate language loss, with a view toward establishing educational programs for the revitalization of the heritage language. Ernestina P. Hernandez is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of New Mexico in the department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Contributors 293 Studies. Her research interests include bilingual education, heritage language learners, and dual language immersion education. AndrewLynch (Ph.D. in Hispanic linguistics, University of Minnesota, 2001) is assistant professor of Spanish and linguistics at the University of Florida . His research focuses on sociolinguistic aspects of Spanish in the U.S. and on the acquisition of Spanish as a heritage and second language. N. ArianaMrak (Ph.D. University of Houston, 2000) is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Houston, Downtown. She specializes in sociolinguistics and...