Critical Language awareness and critical sociocultural linguistic literacy for Spanish heritage language programs: Implementing a complete curriculum
Online lecture by Dr. Claudia Holguín Mendoza (University of California Riverside)
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
Online Location, Advance registration required (see event description for link)
In this presentation, Dr. Holguín Mendoza describes the design and implementation of a comprehensive critical literacy and Critical Language Awareness (CLA)- oriented Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) program that deconstructs and questions sociopolitical hierarchies, challenges the subordination of SHL students’ linguistic practices and elevates students’ voices and agency. She underscores the importance of building critical SHL programs on three interrelated foundations: stakeholder engagement, curriculum, and assessment. A truly comprehensive critical literacy and CLA oriented program must integrate critical teacher training with a wide stakeholder engagement that serves to build on strengths from across the institution and to position the SHL program as a promoter of Latinx student success. Sociolinguistic justice and antiracist transformation through literacy occur when we critically understand how language and sociocultural access and expertise are socially constructed. Finally, Dr. Holguín Mendoza describes assessment tools that have demonstrated how comprehensive critical literacy programs have proven to be a valuable model for language education and student empowerment.
Advance registration is required.
Sponsored by The Department of Modern and Classical Languages.
