The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: metodologias, contextos y recursos para la ensenanza del espanol L2 provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the main methodologies, contexts and resources in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT), a field that has experienced significant growth world-wide in recent decades and has consolidated as an autonomous discipline within Applied Linguistics.

Written entirely in Spanish, the volume is the first handbook on Spanish Language Teaching to connect theories on language teaching with methodological and practical aspects from an international perspective. It brings together the most recent research and offers a broad, multifaceted view of the discipline.

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• Forty-four chapters offering an interdisciplinary overview of SLT written by over sixty renowned experts from around the world;
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• Five broad sections that combine theoretical and practical components: Methodology; Language Skills; Formal and Grammatical Aspects; Sociocultural Aspects; and Tools and Resources;
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• In-depth reflections on the practical aspects of Hispanic Linguistics and Spanish Language Teaching to further engage with new theoretical ideas and to understand how to tackle classroom-related matters;
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• A consistent inner structure for each chapter with theoretical aspects, methodological guidelines, practical considerations, and valuable references for further reading;
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• An array of teaching techniques, reflection questions, language samples, design of activities, and methodological guidelines throughout the volume.
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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching contributes to enriching the field by being an essential reference work and study material for specialists, researchers, language practitioners, and current and future educators. The book will be equally useful for people interested in curriculum design and graduate students willing to acquire a complete and up-to-date view of the field with immediate applicability to the teaching of the language.

About the Author

Javier Munoz-Basols is Senior Instructor in Spanish and Co-ordinator of the Spanish language programme at the University of Oxford, UK.

Elisa Gironzetti is Assistant Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics and Coordinator and TA Supervisor for Spanish Language Courses at the University of Maryland, USA.

Manel Lacorte is Associate Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics and Director of the Spanish Language Program at the University of Maryland, USA.

Reviews

"The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: metodologia, contextos y recursos para la ensenanza del Espanol L2 es el claro ejemplo de que los procesos de heterogeneidad y homogeneidad asociados a la globalizacion han irrumpido de lleno en el campo de la linguistica aplicada a la ensenanza de la lengua espanola. Por un lado, se trata de un trabajo en el que destacados especialistas ubicados en diversos contextos geograficos y de ensenanza exponen los ultimos avances en los temas de mayor actualidad en la disciplina. Por otro lado, la homogeneidad se pone de manifiesto en la estructura de los capitulos (introduccion y palabras clave bilingues, estado de la cuestion, consideraciones metodologicas, pautas, bibliografia citada y bibliografia recomendada). La calidad y el rigor teoricos se anticipan desde la introduccion (por ejemplo, en el interes por precisar las principales nomenclaturas de la investigacion y la ensenanza del espanol). El prurito por la aplicacion practica se plasma en cada capitulo, en la seccion de pautas, donde en ocasiones se incluyen ademas muestras de lengua para ilustrar aspectos pedagogicos concretos. La conjuncion de estos y otros muchos aciertos dan como resultado un todo armonico que nos pone a vibrar en una misma sintonia de empoderamiento y confianza en nuestra profesion y en el futuro de nuestra lengua."

Martha Jurado, CEPE - Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)

"This volume covers an extensive range of critical and current topics in teaching Spanish from both veteran and newer voices. Pressing issues of concern to both researchers and practitioners are represented, as well as useful reflections on how to bridge the two. The five principal sections of the book-cutting-edge methodologies, the development of language skills, features of various linguistic structures, a range of sociocultural topics, and a collection of high quality resources-offer readers a state of the art interdisciplinary exploration of current knowledge and best practices. I was especially pleased to see chapters on bilingual/multilingualism, heritage speakers, community service, and immersion programs, all of which are moving students in exciting directions linked to important social justice goals. The inclusion of scholars from across Latin America, the U.S., and Europe ensures representation of a multiplicity of contexts in which Spanish is taught. The editors are to be commended not only for assembling this breadth of high-quality scholarship, but also for doing so in Spanish, which allows the field to 'walk the walk' of promoting the use of Spanish in various domains, making this volume an outstanding contribution to the field."

Kim Potowski, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Una de las muchas virtudes de este volumen es hacer facil lo dificil y, por lo tanto, conjugar lo erudito y lo cercano. Se trata de la primera obra de referencia sobre el espanol como LE/L2 con una verdadera vocacion de conectar la investigacion linguistica y la innovacion didactica. Su vision especializada y actual se vale de la investigacion teorica para guiar al lector hasta las practicas docentes de una forma clara y concisa. Su versatilidad resulta de gran utilidad, tanto para aquellos que se inician en el mundo de la ensenanza del espanol, como para los investigadores que desean estudiar, profundizar o consultar aspectos concretos. El hecho de que integre perspectivas de especialistas en distintos contextos educativos de todo el mundo constituye un verdadero acierto, ya que sus expertas miradas nos exponen los contenidos de cada uno de los capitulos habilmente divididos en secciones para proporcionarnos una vision historica, panoramica y global de la ensenanza del espanol como LE/L2. Este volumen esta llamado a convertirse en una obra de referencia obligatoria sobre la materia a la que cualquier profesor e investigador debera tener acceso."

Richard Bueno Hudson, Instituto Cervantes

"The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching underscores the importance of (re)defining and updating our teaching methods and resources. It is an ambitious tome with 44 chapters on teaching methods, curriculum development, applied linguistics, linguistics, and teaching resources for state-of-the-art Spanish instruction. As the first comprehensive account of Spanish Language Teaching at a global level, the Handbook provides an up-to-date resource for instructors-in-training and experienced professionals that seek a go-to book on Spanish teaching. Entirely written in Spanish and with direct application into the classroom, the book includes essays by next-gen and established luminaries who share perspectives and approaches to learning and professional development on topics such as sociolinguistics, service learning, Spanish for the professions, virtual learning, pedagogical translation, and gamification, among others. The collection delivers indispensable inspiration and research-based approaches to teacher training and advancement for scholars and practitioners alike in an epoch of global expansion of Spanish Language Teaching."

Sheri Spaine Long, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

"Los procesos que intervienen en el aprendizaje y en la ensenanza de una segunda lengua han representado dos autenticas cajas negras (?que mecanismos intervienen?, ?como ensenar de forma eficiente?). Gracias a las aportaciones de la investigacion, sabemos que en la actuacion linguistica participan multitud de destrezas (hablar, comprender, escribir, leer), de dimensiones (formal o codificada, pragmatica, psicolinguistica, conversacional...), de situaciones sociales y culturales... Existen progresos evidentes en la dimension didactica: planteamientos, organizacion, praxis docente, multiplicacion de recursos, evaluacion... Esta obra constituye un excelente, completo y moderno volumen sobre aprendizaje y ensenanza de espanol L2. Esta escrito por especialistas prestigiosos en cada materia y ofrece respuestas contrastadas que iluminan sombras y resuelven dificultades que se puedan presentar a docentes e investigadores."

Salvador Gutierrez Ordonez, Real Academia Espanola and Universidad de Leon

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching pone a disposicion del usuario un amplio abanico de temas, relacionados con los procesos de ensenanza y aprendizaje del idioma, que se organizan formando una estructura que permite un manejo del volumen comodo y eficaz. La lectura de esta obra de referencia para docentes e investigadores en didactica del espanol conduce a la adquisicion de un conocimiento teorico solido sobre la disciplina y, al mismo tiempo, proporciona un completo y valiosisimo conjunto de ideas de caracter practico para el desarrollo de la labor docente. [...] Estamos ante un libro de consulta obligatoria para todo aquel que desee mantenerse actualizado con los avances metodologicos y los planteamientos didacticos mas recientes en la ensenanza del espanol L2.

Clara Urena Tormo, Universidad de Alcala

Book Information
ISBN 9780367580452
Author Javier Munoz-Basols
Format Paperback
Page Count 724
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 1340g