December 7th, 2023 (3:00pm – 4:30pm Boston | 21:00 Madrid) | Via Zoom
RSVP: https://bit.ly/RSVPObservatorio or info-observatory@fas.harvard.edu
When we acknowledge, respect, affirm, and incorporate the linguistic and cultural practices of our students, everyone can feel included and represented in the learning process. One of the ways to enable an inclusive educational space that welcomes all voices and questions dominant paradigms is through curriculum design that promotes and facilitates the development of critical language awareness (e.g., Fairclough, 2014; Beaudrie & Loza, 2021). In this practice-oriented workshop, a follow-up of the theoretical session presented in November, Diego Pascual y Cabo will offer a panoramic view of the ways in which this approach can contribute to more responsible and sensitive teaching that helps us fight language insecurity and its multiple manifestations. Through the analysis of activities and materials, we will explore how to promote linguistic plurality, how to recognize, make visible, and denounce ideologies and power relations, how to encourage attitudes leading to social justice and debunk false linguistic myths, and how to advocate for the development of critical language awareness.
This event is organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain Education Office.
Diego Pascual y Cabo is a professor of Linguistics and Spanish at the University of Florida, where he also directs the Spanish as a Heritage Language program. His current research revolves around the study of three areas: the acquisition, learning and teaching of Spanish as a heritage language; (racio)linguistic attitudes and ideologies; and the relationship between language, power, and identity. His publications have appeared in numerous academic journals of international reference, such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Heritage Language Journal and Foreign Language Annals. In 2014, he founded the annual Symposium of Spanish as a Heritage Language, and since 2018 he is the editor of the international academic journal Spanish Heritage Language Journal.
Language: Spanish