TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION I; MEDICAL SPANISH FOR HERITAGE LEARNERS; MAKING CONNECTIONS; DATA COLLECTION AS SERVICE-LEARNING; SECTION II; COMBINING THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION AND LANGUAGE TEACHING; CREATING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE COMMUNITY AND THE UNIVERSITY; LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND SHIFT AMONG SPEAKERS OF MIXTECO IN OREGON; SECTION III; ��C�OMO QUE SPANGLISH!?; SPANGLISH; CRITICAL LINGUISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE LAST AMERICAN COLONY; SECTION IV; ON BECOMING A BORROWING; VOCES DE LA COMUNIDAD DE APRENDIZAJE/VOICES FROM THE LEARNING COMMUNITY.

LANGUAGE POLITICS AND COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATESCONCLUSION; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS.

Building Communities and Making Connections explores areas of academic and community engagement, through various studies that include community service learning, and the development and implementation of university programs that contain a community dimension. Academic endeavors have long been seen as separate from the realities of local and regional communities. This book closes the gap by looking at ways in which both academia and the communities its serves can collaborate to create authenti ...

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