Manel Lacorte

Based on their extensive academic, research and professional careers in several European and North American countries, Manel Lacorte and Agustín Reyes-Torres rely on consolidated theoretical and practical paradigms on language acquisition and teaching to propose a pedagogy of Spanish 2/L that successfully includes different types of pedagogical, linguistic, cultural and social knowledge. This book has as its basic reference the 2/L teacher's individual and collective reflection on (1) the use of appropriate resources, processes, and strategies for 2/L learning in different sociocultural contexts; (2) contemporary notions of multiliteracies and multimodality embedded in the teaching of languages, literatures, and cultures; and (3) the perspectives and interests of the participants in 2/L instruction, that is, learners and pre-service and in-service teachers. The book gives special attention to the individual circumstances, needs, and interests of 2/L Spanish educators in these times defined by marked job mobility and constant technological innovations in all social and professional spheres.

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics provides a comprehensive overview of Hispanic applied linguistics, allowing students to understand the field from a variety of perspectives and offering insight into the ever-growing number of professional opportunities afforded to Spanish language program graduates. The goal of this book is to re-contextualize the notion of applied linguistics as simply the application of theoretical linguistic concepts to practical settings and to consider it as its own field that addresses language-based issues and problems in a real-world context. The book is organized into five parts: 1) perspectives on learning Spanish 2) issues and environments in Spanish teaching 3) Spanish in the professions 4) the discourses of Spanish and 5) social and political contexts for Spanish. The book’s all-inclusive coverage gives students the theoretical and sociocultural context for study in Hispanic applied linguistics while offering practical information on its application in the professional sector.