Community Engagement Pedagogy: A Tool to Empower Heritage Language and Second Language Integration

Transforming the community’s linguistic landscape in a mixed-learner service learning capstone course in a Spanish for specific purposes program

“…Service learning is seen by some as an ecologically perfect didactic tool for HLLs within the context of Spanish for the professions (Lafford, 2009;Lear 2012Lear , 2017Fernández & Osa-Melero, 2017;King de Ramírez, 2017;Tocaimaza-Hatch & Walls, 2017;Abbott & Martínez, 2018;Sánchez-López, 2019). LSP scholars argue that service learning, in an ecological way, provides adequate learning opportunities for heritage speakers to optimize their learning process and develop professional leadership skills within contexts and adaptable interactions.…”