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"The Effects of Instruction on Heritage Language Development" Kim Potowski Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics University of Illinois at Chicago

Kim Potowski is Associate Professor of Hispanic linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on Spanish in the United States, including two-way immersion schools, heritage speaker programs, and linguistic studies about discourse markers, Spanish use in quinceañera celebrations, and the ethnolinguistic identity of "MexiRican" individuals. Recent edited books include Language diversity in the USA (2010), which profiles the 12 most commonly spoken languages in the country, and Bilingual youth: Spanish in English-speaking societies (2011). She recently spent a year in Oaxaca, Mexico, studying the language and schooling experiences of U.S.-raised youth who have returned to Mexico. She is Executive Editor of the journal Spanish in Context.