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This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book's purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language context, as well as to provide language educators and practitioners essential guidelines for designing community service-learning courses, with particular attention paid to the characteristics and needs of Spanish heritage language learners. This book presents compelling evidence demonstrating the central role community service-learning plays in developing heritage language learners' identities, connections to the heritage language community, language attitudes, and social, cultural, and sociolinguistic awareness. Importantly, this book also addresses the often-overlooked perspectives of community partners and liaisons. As the first original research monograph on community service-learning for Spanish heritage language learners, this pioneering book will aid students, instructors and administrators across all levels of language education

Service learning --- Heritage language speakers --- Community and college --- Heritage language learners --- Heritage speakers --- Persons --- Service learning / United States --- Heritage language speakers / United States --- Community and college / United States --- Hispanic Americans / Education (Higher) / Social aspects --- United States