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Preface 1. The State of The Art of Teaching Spanish: From Research to PraxisRafael Salaberry and Barbara Lafford 2. A Content-Based Approach to Spanish Language Study: Foreign Languages Across the CurriculumCarol A. Klee and Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol 3. Spanish SLA Research, Classroom Practice and Curriculum DesignJoseph Collentine 4. Theoretical and Research Considerations Underlying Classroom Practice: The Fundamental Role of InputBill VanPatten and Michael Leeser5. Concept-Based Instruction and The Acquisition of L2 SpanishEduardo Negueruela and James P. Lantolf 6. The Effects of Study Abroad and Classroom Contexts on the Acquistion of Spanish as a Second Language: From Research to ApplicationBarbara Lafford and Joseph Collentine 7. Online Language Learning: The Case of Spanish Without WallsRobert Blake and Ann Marie Delforge8. Testing SpanishRafael Salaberry and Andrew D. Cohen 9. Incorporating Linguistic Variation into the ClassroomManuel J. Gutierezz and Marta Fairclough 10. Making Connections: Second Language Acquisition Research and Heritage Language TeachingGuadalupe Valdes 11. Spanish Second Language Acquisition: Applications to the Teaching of Professional Translation (and Interpretation)Sonia ColinaContributors Index

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Sparked by an increasing demand for a wider array of Spanish courses, this representative and timely collection of studies offers practical guidance in elucidating research on SLA to enhance teaching. -- Nuria Sagarra, assistant professor of Spanish and linguistics and applied language studies and director, Spanish as a basic language, The Pennsylvania State University An invaluable resource for SLA researchers and practitioners. The volume should be a necessary source of information or the center of discussion in any class on Spanish SLA and pedagogy. -- Dale Koike, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin A comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative overview of the field of Spanish second language acquisition, including Spanish as a heritage language. This one-stop resource tool on key theoretical and practical questions is sure to become a staple of teacher-training and graduate programs in Spanish linguistics. -- Maria M. Carreira, associate professor of Spanish, California State University, Long Beach

About the Author

Rafael Salaberry is a professor of Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas in Austin. He is the author of The Development of Spanish Past Tense Morphology in a Classroom Environment and coeditor of Spanish Second Language Acquisition: The State of the Science. Barbara A. Lafford is a professor of Spanish applied linguistics and second language acquisition at Arizona State University. She is the coeditor (with Michelle Shockey) of Culture and Context: Perspectives on the Acquisition of Cultural Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom and coeditor of Spanish Second Language Acquisition: The State of the Science.

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A comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative overview of the field of Spanish second language acquisition, including Spanish as a heritage language. This one-stop resource tool on key theoretical and practical questions is sure to become a staple of teacher-training and graduate programs in Spanish linguistics.--Maria M. Carreira, associate professor of Spanish, California State University, Long Beach

An invaluable resource for SLA researchers and practitioners. The volume should be a necessary source of information or the center of discussion in any class on Spanish SLA and pedagogy.--Dale Koike, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin

Sparked by an increasing demand for a wider array of Spanish courses, this representative and timely collection of studies offers practical guidance in elucidating research on SLA to enhance teaching.--Nuria Sagarra, assistant professor of Spanish and linguistics and applied language studies and director, Spanish as a basic language, The Pennsylvania State University

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