Peer-Effect: Non-Traditional Models of Instruction in Spanish as a Heritage Language

<p><em>The Peer Effect: Non-Traditional Models of Instruction in Spanish as a Heritage Language</em> guides an important pedagogical conversation on the relevance of heritage language and literacy practices as resources for instruction framing heritage teaching and learning as a social justice issue. </p><p>Presenting ethnographic and discourse analyses of a heritage peer tutoring program at a university in California this book focuses on the ways in which the dynamic translanguaging practices that Spanish heritage language (SHL) peer tutors mobilize in a non-classroom student-led collaborative academic space directly respond to the literacy demands of academic language development. Based on the in-depth analysis of peer tutors’ translingual practices the book advances scholarship in SHL pedagogy providing concrete classroom-based examples techniques and activities that nurture equitable pedagogies for heritage student belonging while challenging the deficit discourse that has traditionally governed the dialogue around literacy instruction for multilingual students. </p><p>This versatile volume is designed for educators researchers practitioners and students in the fields of heritage language pedagogy bilingual education educational linguistics and literacy studies for multilingual students.</p>