The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics provides a clear and up-to-date overview of contemporary developments in the field, exploring the current role of Spanish as an international language used across academic, social, and professional activities.Now in a fully revised edition, it highlights new areas of interdisciplinary research as well as the fast-paced worldwide growth of the Spanish language. Under Lacorte’s editorship, this handbook is firmly grounded in a notion of applied linguistics as an autonomous scientific field that addresses language-based issues and problems in real-world contexts.Specifically, the volume:1. covers key areas in Hispanic applied linguistics including teaching and learning Spanish as a second language (L2), Spanish in the professions, discourse analysis, and social and political issues related to the Spanish language;2. provides state-of-the-art knowledge contributed by prominent scholars and researchers from institutions around the world;3. offers a multidisciplinary approach written in English to the analysis and resolution of language-based issues in Spanish-speaking environments;4. addresses the increasingly varied needs of graduates in Hispanic linguistics, noting how they run in parallel to the study of practical applications of Spanish;Across forty chapters, contributors identify growing opportunities for Spanish graduates in various areas, including teaching, translation and interpretation, language program administration, instructional technology, and content creation. Wide-encompassing and future-oriented, this handbook is an ideal resource for students and researchers of the Spanish language and applied linguistics as well as teachers and professionals.