Kim Potowski

Associate Professor
Director of the Spanish Heritage Language Program

Education
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

Selected Publications

Books

• 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.  (In press). Language Maintenance and Shift.  In R. Bayley, R. Cameron & C. Lucas (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (321-339).  Oxford University Press.
• 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.
• 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.
• Potowski, K. and Matts, J. (2008). Interethnic language and identity: MexiRicans in Chicago. Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 7 (2): 137-160.
• 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

Fellowships and Awards:

• Fulbright Research Fellow.  Transnational youth in Oaxaca.  2011-2012.
• University of Illinois at Chicago, Great Cities Institute research fellowship. Arresting attrition: Spanish language maintenance in Chicago’s elementary schools. 2006-2007.
• American Association of University Women postdoctoral grant. Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish in Chicago. 2006.
• University of Illinois at Chicago, Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning’s Teaching Recognition Program award. 2003 and 2012.