Academic peer tutors and academic biliteracy development in students of Spanish as a heritage language

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Journal of Spanish Language Teaching Pub Date : 2018-07-03 DOI:10.1080/23247797.2018.1538358

Lina M. Reznicek-Parrado, Melissa Patiño-Vega, M. C. Colombi

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ABSTRACTThis study explores the literacy development of students who speak Spanish as a heritage language and who participate in mandatory, peer-to-peer tutoring sessions outside of the classroom. We explore students’ academic development as well as their self-positioning as heritage speakers in a bilingual academic setting. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), we analyze the written production of seven bilingual students enrolled in a Native Speaker Program at a large, public university. We focus on the development of their academic language through the support of a heritage language tutor and explore the role of the peer tutor as a facilitator in this process. Additionally, we employ Appraisal Theory to analyze interviews in which the same participants explore their bilingual identities and how they position themselves interpersonally as a result of conversations held with a peer mentor, thus demonstrating the benefits of learning Spanish as a heritage language through peer-led learning in ...

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学术同行导师与西班牙语作为传统语言学生的学术双语能力发展

摘要本研究探讨了将西班牙语作为传统语言的学生以及在课堂外参加强制性对等辅导课程的学生的识字发展情况。我们探讨了学生在双语学术环境中的学术发展以及他们作为传统演讲者的自我定位。利用系统功能语言学（SFL），我们分析了一所大型公立大学的七名双语学生的书面作品。我们专注于通过传统语言导师的支持来发展他们的学术语言，并探索同行导师在这一过程中作为促进者的作用。此外，我们使用评估理论来分析访谈，在访谈中，相同的参与者探索他们的双语身份，以及他们如何在与同伴导师的对话中对自己进行人际定位，从而展示了通过在。。。

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Journal of Spanish Language Teaching Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Spanish Language Teaching is a new peer-reviewed journal that provides an international forum for innovative research, methods, materials and theories on the teaching and learning of Spanish as a foreign language. The Journal''s main purpose is to create a dialogue between researchers and practitioners worldwide in order to enrich a discipline that is experiencing tremendous growth. The Journal invites contributions from researchers working on topics related to the teaching and learning of the Spanish language at any educational level and in any setting. The Journal will publish original research papers as well as book reviews. Periodically, it will also consider monographic issues and critical surveys of recent research related to a specific sub-discipline or geographical area. A thorough peer review process will be applied to both commissioned and unsolicited articles. The Journal of Spanish Language Teaching will constitute an essential journal of reference in the field. There is currently no other academic publication dedicated solely to the teaching and learning of Spanish, which exists in both print and electronic formats, and is global in its reach. Targeted at both academics and practitioners, the Journal aims to have a major impact on the discipline.