Kim Potowski, PhD

Director of the Language in Context Research Group

Major Interests
Heritage language development; Spanish in the U.S.; language & identity; dual immersion education.

Books

• Handbook of Spanish as a heritage/minority language. (2017) (Edited) Routledge.
• Intra-Latino language and identity: MexiRicans in Chicago. (2016). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• El español de los Estados Unidos.(2015).  With Anna María Escobar.  Cambridge University Press.

• Heritage language teaching: Research and practice. (2014).  With Beaudrie, S., Ducar, C.  McGraw-Hill.
• Language diversity in the U.S.A. (Edited). (2010). Cambridge University Press.

• Conversaciones escritas: Spanish composition for heritage and L2 students. (2010). John Wiley & Sons.
• Bilingual youth: Spanish-speakers in English-speaking countries. (2010). Edited with Jason Rothman. John Benjamins.
• Spanish in Contact: Educational, Linguistic, and Social Inquiries. (2007). Edited with Richard Cameron. John Benjamins.
• Dicho y hecho, 8th edition. With Laila Dawson & Silvia Sobral. (2007). John Wiley & Sons.
• Language and identity in a dual immersion school. (2007). Multilingual Matters.
• Fundamentos de la enseñanza del español a los hablantes natives en los Estados Unidos(Foundations in teaching Spanish to native speakers in the United States). (2005).  Arco/Libros.

Articles and Book Chapters

• Potowski, K. (2016). Bilingual youth: Spanish-speakers at the beginning of the 21st century. Language and Linguistics Compass, 10 (6), 272-283.
• O’Rourke, E. & Potowski, K. (2016). Phonetic accommodation in a situation of Spanish dialect contact: /s/ and /r/ in Chicago. Journal of Hispanic and Lusopone Linguistics.
• Potowski, K. & Lynch, A. (2014). La enseñanza del español a los hablantes de herencia: Teoría y praxis. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, 1 (2), 154-170.
• Lynch, A. & Potowski, K. (2014). La valoración del habla bilingüe en Estados Unidos: Fundamentos sociolingüísticos y pedagógicos en Hablando bien se entiende la gente. Hispania, 97 (1), 32-46.
• Potowski, K, Dillon, K, Kagan, O, McGinnis, S. and Peyton, J. (2013). Teachers of heritage language speakers: Perturbing assumptions and possible solutions. Conference proceedings, Language Teacher Education 2009 and 2011. National Capital Language Resource Center.
• Potowski, K.  (2013). Language Maintenance and Shift.  In R. Bayley, R. Cameron & C. Lucas (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (321-339).  Oxford University Press.
• Potowski, K., Parada, M., & Morgan-Short, K. (2012). Developing an online placement exam for Spanish heritage speakers and L2 students. Heritage Language Journal, 9 (1), 51-76.
• Potowski, K.  (2012).  Identity and heritage learners: Moving beyond essentializations.  In S. Beaudrie & M. Fairclough (Eds.), Spanish as a Heritage Language in the US: State of the Science (283-304). Georgetown University Press.
• Carreira, M. & Potowski, K. (2011). Commentary: Pedagogical implications of experimental SNS research. Invited article, special issue on Spanish linguistics. Heritage Language Journal, 8 (1), 134-151.
• Potowski, K. (2011). Intrafamilial dialect contact. In Díaz-Campos, M. (Ed.), Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Potowski, K. and Gorman, L. (2011). Quinceañeras: Hybridized tradition, language use, and identity in the U.S. In Potowski, K. & Rothman, J. (Eds.), Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies. John Benjamins.
• Potowski, K. (2011).  “Spanglish” greeting cards as linguistic and cultural performance.  International Journal of Multilingualism, 8 (4), 1-21.
• Potowski, K. (2009). Forms and functions of code-switching by dual immersion students: A comparison of heritage speaker and L2 children. In M. Turnbull & Miles & J. Dailey-O’Cain (Eds.), First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning (87-114). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
• Potowski, K., Jegerski, J. & Morgan-Short, K. (2009). The effects of instruction on subjunctive development among Spanish heritage language speakers. Language Learning 59 (3): 537-579.
• Torres, L. & Potowski, K. (2008). A comparative study of bilingual discourse markers in Chicago Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Spanish. International Journal of Bilingualism, 12 (4), 263-279.
• Potowski, K. (2008) ¿Por qué ofrecen una clase para hispanohablantes? In Jennifer Ewald & Anne Edstrom (Eds.), El español a través de la lingüística: Preguntas y respuestas. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla (228-241).
• Potowski, K., Berne, J., Clark, A. and Hammerand, A. (2008). Spanish for K-8 Heritage Speakers: A Standards-Based Curriculum Project. Hispania, 91 (1), 25-41.
• Potowsk, K. (2008). “I was raised talking like my mom”: The influence of mothers in the development of MexiRicans’ phonological and lexical features. In J. Rothman & M. Niño-Murcia (Eds.), Linguistic Identity and Bilingualism in Different Hispanic Contexts. New York: John Benjamins (201-220).
• Montrul, S. & Potowski, K. (2007). Command of gender agreement in school-age Spanish-English Bilingual Children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 11 (3), 301-328.
• Potowski, K. (2004). Spanish language shift in Chicago. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 23 (1), 87-116.
• Potowski, K. (2004). Student Spanish use and investment in a dual immersion classroom: Implications for second language acquisition and heritage language maintenance. Modern Language Journal, 88 (1), 75-101.
• Potowski, K. (2003). Chicago’s Heritage Language Teacher Corps: A model for improving Spanish teacher development. Hispania, 86 (2), 302-311.
• Potowski, K. (2002). Experiences of Spanish heritage speakers in university foreign language courses and implications for teacher training. ADFL Bulletin, 33 (3), 35-42.

Journal Editing

• Executive editor, Spanish in Context
• Co-editor, Heritage Language Journal (2010-2013)

Other work

• April 2013. TEDx at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “No child left monolingual.”

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign