Document Types
Individual Presentation
Start Date
2-22-2024 3:40 PM
End Date
2-22-2024 4:00 PM
Track
Culture and Pedagogy
Abstract
This paper presents a community engagement project that promotes social justice through language, by educating university HL speakers who, in turn, become teachers and mentors for high schoolers. The results show that students develop a better understanding of language diversity, ideologies, and attitudes as well as their own language practices.
Recommended Citation
Sanchez-Munoz, Ana, "Sociolinguistic Justice en la comunidad: A Community Engagement project between University Heritage Speakers and High School students" (2024). 11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language. 9.
https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/heritage_spanish/SCHEDULE/Thursday/9
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Sociolinguistic Justice en la comunidad: A Community Engagement project between University Heritage Speakers and High School students
This paper presents a community engagement project that promotes social justice through language, by educating university HL speakers who, in turn, become teachers and mentors for high schoolers. The results show that students develop a better understanding of language diversity, ideologies, and attitudes as well as their own language practices.
