Kim Potowski is Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

"Con este volumen, el joven campo del español como lengua heredada alcanza su madurez y consolida su importancia dentro de la lingüística aplicada. Estos 36 estudios, firmados por un extraordinario elenco de expertos, ofrecen análisis desde una multiplicidad de contextos y ángulos, algunos muy novedosos. Potowski ha logrado ensamblar una magnífica obra coral." Francisco Moreno Fernández, Universidad de Alcalá and Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University"The breadth of scholarship collected here, including leading researchers in Latino studies, various disciplines of linguistics, and education, is the result of Potowski's vision for these fields to inform each other with the goal of improving circumstances for diasporic Spanish-speaking populations around the world. These analyses push our understandings of critical topics, and many chapters inspire advocacy for marginalized populations. An essential volume."Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of California Los Angeles

• 1. Spanish as a heritage/minority language: A multifaceted look at ten nations Kim Potowski Part I. Social issues 2. A historical view of US latinidad and Spanish as a heritage language Andrew Lynch 3. Spanish in U.S. language policy and politics Phillip M. Carter 4. Spanish language use, maintenance, and shift in the United States Devin Jenkins 5. Spanish in linguistic landscapes of the U.S. José M. Franco-Rodríguez 6. Linguistics and Latino studies: intersections for the advancement of linguistic and social justice Lourdes Torres 7. Spanish and identity among Latin@s in the U.S. Rachel Showstack 8. Spanish as a heritage language and the negotiation of race and intra-Latina/o hierarchies in the U.S. Rosalyn Negrón 9. Queering Spanish as a heritage language Holly Cashman and Juan Antonio Trujillo Part II. Linguistic studies 10. Morphology, syntax and semantics in Spanish as a heritage language Silvina Montrul 11.. Heritage Spanish phonetics and phonology Rebecca Ronquest and Rajiv Rao 12. The lexicon of Spanish heritage language speakers Marta Fairclough and Anel Garza 13. Heritage Spanish pragmatics Derrin Pinto 14. Neurolinguistic approaches to Spanish as a heritage language Harriet Wood Bowden and Bernard Issa 15. Psycholinguistic perspectives on heritage Spanish Jill Jegerski 16. Child heritage speakers’ morphosyntax: rate of acquisition and crosslinguistic influence Naomi Shin 17. Sociolinguistic variation in U.S. Spanish Rena Torres Cacoullos and Grant M. Berry 18. Spanish dialectal contact in the United States Daniel Erker 19. Understanding and leveraging Spanish heritage speakers’ bilingual practices Almeida Jacqueline Toribio and Leah Durán Part III. Educational issues 20. Towards the development of an analytical framework for examining goals and pedagogical approaches in teaching language to heritage speakers Guadalupe Valdés and María Luisa Parra 21. Outcomes of classroom Spanish heritage language instruction Melissa A. Bowles 22. Critical language awareness and Spanish as a heritage language: challenging the linguistic subordination of US Latinxs Jennifer Leeman 23. Differentiated teaching: a primer for heritage and mixed classes Maria Carreira and Claire Hitchins Chik 24. Key issues in Spanish heritage language program design and administration Sara Beaudrie 25. Spanish for the professions and community service learning: applications with heritage learners Ann Abbott and Glenn Martinez 26. Spanish heritage speakers studying abroad Rachel Shively 27. Expanding the multilingual repertoire: teaching cognate languages to heritage Spanish speakers Ana Carvalho and Michael Child 28. Developing Spanish in dual language programs: preschool through twelfth grade Kathryn Lindholm-Leary 29. What do we know about U.S. latino bilingual children’s Spanish literacy development? Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez Part IV. Spanish as a minotiry/heritage language outside of the U.S. 30. Spanish in the Antipodes: diversity and hybridity of Latino/a Spanish speakers in Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand Criss Jones Díaz and Ute Walker 31. Spanish as a heritage language in Italy Milin Bonomi and Laura Sanfelici 32. Spanish as a heritage language in Germany Carmen Ramos Méndez-Sahlender 33. Spanish as a heritage language in Switzerland Verónica Sánchez Abchi 34. Chilean Spanish speakers in Sweden: transnationalism, trilingualism, and linguistic systems Maryann Parada 35. Spanish as a minority/heritage Language in Canada and the UK Martin Guardado 36. Language issues for US-raised ‘returnees’ in Mexico Clare Mar-Molinero