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The Third Annual Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (SSHL) will be held at the University of Oregon February 18th-20th, 2016. Professor Claudia Holguín Mendoza, Director of the UO’s Spanish as a Heritage Language Program, invites you to participate in this community-oriented academic meeting. Activities include panels with theoretical and pedagogical proposals, sharing of experiences teaching and learning Spanish as a Heritage Language, workshops by Oregon dual immersion high school educators, workshops on community outreach, and a Creative Writing Contest.

The Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language (SSHL) is an intellectual forum for the discussion of both the variable linguistic reality of Spanish heritage bilingualism in the United States (and elsewhere) and the diverse pedagogical needs of students of Spanish as a heritage language. Researchers and educators in K-12 and higher education share theoretical and practical approaches to the study of Spanish as a heritage language from the perspectives of various disciplines, including Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Applied Linguistics, among others. The SSHL provides a space to bridge the gap between research findings and the praxis of heritage language teaching, allowing participants to collaborate effectively towards the implementation of pedagogies that allow heritage learners not only to develop their language proficiency but also to reflect on their own identity formation within a context of validation and empowerment.

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