Contact, Community, and Connections: Current Approaches to Spanish in Multilingual Populations edited by Gregory L. Thompson, Scott M. Alvord

"Contact, community, and connections: Current approaches to Spanish in multilingual populations" adds to the invaluable research tradition that started in 1980 with the very first Conference on Spanish in the United States. The end result of Thompson and Alvord’s meticulous editorship is a timely volume that not only exemplifies current trends in the study of Spanish-speaking communities in the United States and Spanish in contact with other languages, but also foretells many of the questions that will maintain researchers occupied for years to come. The variety of topics, methodological perspectives, and data analysis approaches makes this edited volume a must-read for scholars and future scholars interested in Spanish linguistics in general, and in the relationship between language and identity, the effects of language and dialect contact, and the teaching of Spanish as a foreign and heritage language in particular.

Prof. Dr. Edwin M. Lamboy

School of Education, The City College of New York (CUNY)