Aquí Se Habla serves to envision a more just and equitable Spanish language education that centers language learning as a deeply personal, local, and lifelong practice. Organized around long-standing tension points within and outside the profession, this volume features a unique set of contributors whose diverse perspectives help to deconstruct disciplinary boundaries and elevate the knowledge and lived experiences of U.S. Spanish speakers. With chapters that include a variety of formats and dialogues between authors, this invaluable resource is collectively crafted by and for students, researchers, educators, and community partners.In the Winter of 2025, Adam Schwartz taught a course for Spanish majors and minors at Oregon State University, his home institution. A special topics course, this offering of SPAN 399 was themed Bilingüismo local y personal ("Local and Personal Bilingualism") and was guided by the contents of Aquí Se Habla, released during that time. The class affordedstudents to explore the book’s principal themes. Distinct from a survey course that introduces such a thesis through published texts at arm’s length, this class proved to be an experiment of sorts, where students realized and documented their own bilingualisms as lived, dynamic experiences, and in ways that simply cannot organize neatly into academic categorizations. In this course, students individually and collectively wrote, shared, reflected, interviewed, sat in conversation, and presented Spanish-English bilingualisms as lifelong relationships with and through teaching and learning. The course materials were donated to the Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) and were added to the Oregon Multicultural Communities Research Collection. To access the materials, contact SCARC via email scarc@oregonstate.edu and request the "SPAN 399 Bilingüismo local y personal, 2025" materials from the Oregon Multicultural Communities Research Collection; the electronic files will be shared with you upon request.
