🎉Felicidades to this week’s Author Spotlight, Teresa Blumenthal! In Blumenthal’s interview “Open Educational Resources for Spanish as a Heritage Language: An Interview with Founders and Directors of the Texas Coalition for Heritage Spanish, Flavia Belpoliti and Jocelly Meiners”, the author presents an insightful revelation about how the Texas Coalition for Heritage Spanish began, gaps in the heritage language instructional field, and where OER for heritage language education is headed. This is a thoughtful and well-conducted interview that addresses a major area of our field!

📖Read the full interview here.

Teresa Blumenthal teaches Spanish and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include Spanish as a Heritage language, language learner motivation, Spanish in the U.S., and language ideologies. Her teaching interests include curricular development that can benefit heterogeneous learner populations in the same classroom. Additionally, Teresa contributes to SPR with her blog Developing the Professional: Unpacking Graduate Student Resources, as well as an Associate Editor on the Communications Team. Learn more about Teresa and follow her on LinkedIn!