Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics

Manel Lacorte (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics at the University of Maryland. His research explores pedagogical and sociopolitical issues in teaching Spanish as a second language and heritage language, teacher education, and general issues in applied linguistics. His most recent works include Multiliteracies, Multimodality, and Learning by Design in Second Language Learning and Teacher Education (2025, Routledge).

• 1. Introduction. Part I: Issues and environments in Spanish learning and teaching 2. Spanish Second Language Acquisition. 3. Methodological Approaches and Realities. 4. Teacher Education and Professionalization. 5. Program Articulation and Administration. 6. Hispanic Literatures and Cultures Throughout the Curriculum. 7. Technological Contexts for Teaching Spanish. 8. Digital Literacies. 9. Assessment and Evaluation of Spanish. 10. Spanish as a Heritage Language. 12. Spanish for Populations with Emerging Literacy. 13. Critical Approaches to Teaching Spanish. Part II: Spanish in Professional Contexts 13. Translation. 14. Interpreting Reenvisioned. 15. Spanish Lexicography. 16. Computational Hispanic Linguistics. 17. Hispanic Corpus Linguistics. 18. Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Spanish Language. 19. Publishing. 20. Language Context Creation, Multicultural Media Production. 21. Study Abroad and Language Tourism. 22. Forensic Spanish 23. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 24. Advancing Research in Hispanic Applied Linguistics. Part III: The discourses of Spanish 25. Academic and Professional Discourse. 26. Discourse in Administrative and Educational Institutions 27. 27. Media Discourse 28. Commercial Discourse. 29. Discourse, Communication, and Health 30. Intercultural Communication Discourse 31. Politics and Discourse. 32. Online Discourses Part IV: Social and political contexts for Spanish 33. The politics of Spanish in the World 34. Language Policy and Planning: Spanish in the US. 35. Language Policy and Planning: Latin America. 36. Language Policy and Planning: Spain and Europe. 37. Language Policy and Planning: Africa and Asia. 38. Spanish Language and Migrations. 39. Attitudes toward Geographical and Social Varieties of Spanish. 40. Raciolinguistics and Spanish.