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From https://mrpeto.wordpress.com

Teacher Mike Peto writes, “Imagine being an American high school student placed in a basic literacy class. You need this class. Perhaps you are aware that your writing is full of errors. You may even recognize that this could be good for you. However, there is one major problem: your teacher is British. Nobody in your world speaks like her, not even educated adults. Sometimes you do not even understand her! A kind and progressive educator, she never corrects your dialect, but there it is every time she opens her mouth. Would you imitate her? Would you try to figure out which part of her speech to imitate and which part to discard? Or would it just be way too weird?”

Read on to apply this perspective to heritage Spanish learners, and for resources to expose your heritage learners to a variety of authentic resources representing different dialects: https://mrpeto.wordpress.com/2016/04/17/your-heritage-speaking-students-think-you-are-weird/