Texas Coalition for Heritage Spanish

1st Symposium on Spanish-English Bilingualism in California!

¡Buenos días! We’d like to share a recently published article by Teresa Blumenthal in the Spanish and Portuguese Review, where she interviewed our co-directors to learn about the mission and work we do at TeCHS. You can read it here:https://spanishandportuguesereview.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/02-blumenthal-teresa.pdf
¡Feliz lunes!

spanishandportuguesereview.org

¡Tenemos muy buenas noticias! Our new website is live! Check it out here:
https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/
¡Feliz fin de semana!

Hey everyone! The 12th SSHL planning is underway, and guess what? We're also now on Instagram 🎉 Follow us for all the latest updates. Stay tuned! 🚀💜

Last week we hosted our 10th Summer workshop entitled “Engaging Heritage Spanish Learners Beyond the Classroom.” We would like to extend a big thank you to our workshop presenters who helped us develop amazing ideas for our SHL classrooms, the poster presenters who showcased their interesting work, our generous sponsors who made the workshop possible, and all in attendance!

The workshop materials are now available on our website at the following link: https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/instructor-resources/workshops/

Muchas gracias a todos ustedes y ¡esperamos verlos el año que viene!

¡Hoy es nuestro taller! ¡Estamos muy emocionados de todo lo que vamos a aprender!

¡Buenos días a todos! We are just a few short weeks away from our 10th Summer Workshop: "Engaging Heritage Spanish Learners Beyond the Classroom." You still have time to register! The workshop will take place on May 31st on The University of Texas at Austin campus. For more information and registration, please see the post below! Hope to see you soon in Austin!
-The TeCHS Team

¡No se lo pierdan!

We are excited to announce our TeCHS 10th Summer Workshop entitled: Engaging Heritage Spanish Learners Beyond the Classroom.
This year's workshop will be in the George I. Sánchez (SZB) Building on the UT Austin campus on May 1st from 8:30-5pm.

We have also opened a Call for Poster presenters! Researchers, students, and instructors (all levels) are welcome to submit a proposal!

For more info and registration, please visit the link below!
https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/list/events/

¡Hola a todos! Our next TeCHS SHL Hangout will be with Paola Guerrero-Rodriguez from Texas Tech University. She will give a talk entitled “Historias digitales en el aula de español como lengua de herencia: reflexiones de lengua e identidad."
Join us on Thursday, March 7 at 5:00pm (CT) on Zoom.
For more information and free registration, please visit attached link. https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/shl-hangout-historias-digitales/

¡Buenos días a todos! Please join us next week for our December SHL Hangout!

¡Hola a todos! Our next TeCHS SHL Hangout will be with Vicente Iranzo from The University of Texas at Arlington. He will give a talk entitled “Potenciando la comunicación multilingüe en el aula a través de la traducción y la interpretación."
Join us on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 5:00pm (CT) on Zoom.
For more information and free registration, please visit attached link. https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/shl-hangout-comunicacion-multilingue/

¡Hola a todos! Our next TeCHS SHL Hangout will be with Vicente Iranzo from The University of Texas at Arlington. He will give a talk entitled “Potenciando la comunicación multilingüe en el aula a través de la traducción y la interpretación."
Join us on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at 5:00pm (CT) on Zoom.
For more information and free registration, please visit attached link. https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/shl-hangout-comunicacion-multilingue/

Hello everyone! A quick reminder of our upcoming TeCHS hangout!

¡Hola a todos! Our next TeCHS SHL Hangout will be with Sandra Bernal from Colby College. She will give a talk entitled “Narrating Traumas: Creation of Comics by Heritage Learners."
Join us on Oct 16 at 5:00pm (CT) on Zoom.
For more information and free registration, please visit attached link. https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/narrating-traumas-creation-of-comics-by-heritage-learners/

Hosted by la Asociación SICELE (Sistema Internacional de Certificación del Español como Lengua Extranjera). El conversatorio podrá seguirse en directo a través del canal YouTube de la Asociación SICELE.

https://www.youtube.com/live/v3n2GiSOd0A?feature=share

Abordaremos el potencial didáctico que tienen los corpus orales auténticos como input real en el aula, así como el de los recursos abiertos. Compartiremos dinámicas, ejemplos, orientaciones prácticas sugerentes para estimular su uso en español como lengua extranjera, segunda lengua y lengua de herencia.

Con la participación de:
Dra. Guadalupe Ruiz-Fajardo
Profesora titular de la Universidad de Columbia (Nueva York, Estados Unidos)

Dra. Jocelly Meiners
Codirectora de la Texas Coalition for Heritage Spanish (TeCHS) y profesora en la Universidad de Texas (Austin, Estados Unidos)

Dra. Lourdes Díaz Rodríguez
Profesora titular acreditada a cátedra de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, España)

Dra. Sonia Toledo Azócar
07Profesora de lengua española de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile)

Jueves, 20 de julio de 2023
Estados Unidos: 10 h en Texas y 11 h en Nueva York
Chile: 11 h
España: 17 h

El segundo día de nuestro taller fue un éxito! Gracias a las presentadoras y a los estudiantes de UTSA quienes nos hablaron más sobre sus experiencias como hablantes de herencia.

Los materiales del taller están publicados en nuestro website. Los puede encontrar con este enlace: https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/instructor-resources/workshops/

Finalmente, queremos dar un big thank you to Dr. Stephanie González for organizing much of this years workshop and to the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at UTSA for sponsoring this event.

We hope to see you at next year at our 10th Summer Workshop!

Hoy empezamos nuestro 9th Summer Workshop en UTSA! Muchas gracias a nuestros presentadoras de hoy y a los poster presenters! Estamos aprendiendo mucho y estamos emocionados de poder colaborar con otros maestros y profesores! Nos vemos mañana para el segundo y último día del taller!

We are less than 3 weeks away from our 9th Summer Workshop! There is still time to register! The workshop will take place on June 1-2, 2023 on The University of Texas at San Antonio campus.
We are also still accepting proposals for a Texas high school/community college presenter and poster presentations. The high school/community college presenter will receive free registration, travel and lodging, plus a stipend.
Poster presenters receive free registration.

For more information about the workshop, registration, and submitting for the presenters, please visit our website: https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/9th-techs-summer-workshop/

Hola a todos! Our next TeCHS SHL Hangout will be with Lillie Padilla & Rosti Vana from Sam Houston State University. They will present over “The (Re)presentation of Afro-Latinx in Spanish Language Textbooks”.
Join us on April 27, 2023 at 5:00pm (CT) on Zoom.
For more information and free registration, please visit attached link.

Heritage Spanish - If you have found yourself searching for, adapting or creating materials for your heritage classes because of a lack of readily available commercial resources, this site is for you! Here you can start a conversation with other instructors, share SHL resources, browse SHL resources, and stay up-to-da...

We are excited to announce our 9th Summer Workshop that will be held on June 1-2, 2023 at the University of Texas at San Antonio. For more information, please visit the link below: https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/9th-techs-summer-workshop/

Hola a todos! Our next TeCHS SHL Hangout will be with Emily Bernate from St. Edward’s University. Her talk is titled “La combi completa: Encouraging Grammar, Dialect, and Cultural Competence through Reggaetón”.
Join us on February 15, 2023 at 5:00pm (CT) on Zoom.
For more information and free registration, please visit attached link.

Heritage Spanish - If you have found yourself searching for, adapting or creating materials for your heritage classes because of a lack of readily available commercial resources, this site is for you! Here you can start a conversation with other instructors, share SHL resources, browse SHL resources, and stay up-to-da...

Save the date for a TeCHS webinar!

Elena Foulis (Texas A&M San Antonio) and Stacey Alex (Morningside University) will present their design process and Open Education approach in the creation of their OER textbook 'Mi idioma, mi comunidad: español para bilingües'.

Join us on December 7th, 2022 at 5:00pm (CT) on Zoom.

For more information and free registration, please visit

Heritage Spanish - If you have found yourself searching for, adapting or creating materials for your heritage classes because of a lack of readily available commercial resources, this site is for you! Here you can start a conversation with other instructors, share SHL resources, browse SHL resources, and stay up-to-da...