ABOUT OUR PROGRAM
Designed for students who grew up in a Spanish-speaking environment, and who have some Spanish language competency as a result of having heard it in the home and community by parents and/or grandparents, extended family, friends, and neighbors.
The purpose of this program is to integrate students of Hispanic/Latinx heritage into the curriculum of Spanish at Oregon State University. Our SHLL program provides heritage learners with a well structured curriculum to expand their proficiency in Spanish in three communicative areas: interpersonal, interpretative, and presentational. We work on varied activities that are focused on real-world tasks that integrate students' previous knowledge while practicing their linguistic knowledge in all four skills (speaking, writing, listening, reading).
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OBJECTIVES
The primary objectives of our SHLL program are:
- To build an on-campus community for Latinx students where they can feel comfortable developing their Spanish skills.
- To validate and instill pride in our heritage speakers’ identities and their varieties of Spanish.
- To assist students in gaining a critical understanding of the sociopolitical, educational, cultural, historical, and other relevant extralinguistic factors that impact their experiences as Latinx Spanish speakers in the U.S.
- To support students in meeting their academic and personal goals.
CURRICULA
Our program consist of the following three face-to-face courses on the Corvallis campus:
- SPAN 314-315-316: Third-year Spanish for Heritage Language Learners.
We also offer the following courses to continue the Spanish minor/major via Ecampus and face-to-face on the Corvallis campus:
- SPAN 339: Mexican Immigrant Experience in the U.S.
- SPAN 456: Spanish in the United States
- SPAN 499: Teaching and Learning Latinx Spanish
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