Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics provides a clear and up-to-date overview of contemporary developments in the field, exploring the current role of Spanish as an international language used across academic, social, and professional activities. Now in a fully revised edition, it highlights new areas of interdisciplinary research as well as the fast-paced worldwide growth of the Spanish language.

Under Lacorte’s editorship, this handbook is firmly grounded in a notion of applied linguistics as an autonomous scientific field that addresses language-based issues and problems in real-world contexts. Specifically, the volume:

1. covers key areas in Hispanic applied linguistics including teaching and learning Spanish as a second language (L2), Spanish in the professions, discourse analysis, and social and political issues related to the Spanish language;

2. provides state-of-the-art knowledge contributed by prominent scholars and researchers from institutions around the world;

3. offers a multidisciplinary approach written in English to the analysis and resolution of language-based issues in Spanish-speaking environments;

4. addresses the increasingly varied needs of graduates in Hispanic linguistics, noting how they run in parallel to the study of practical applications of Spanish;

Across forty chapters, contributors identify growing opportunities for Spanish graduates in various areas, including teaching, translation and interpretation, language program administration, instructional technology, and content creation.

Wide-encompassing and future-oriented, this handbook is an ideal resource for students and researchers of the Spanish language and applied linguistics as well as teachers and professionals.

Manel Lacorte (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is Professor of Spanish Applied Linguistics at the University of Maryland. His research explores pedagogical and sociopolitical issues in teaching Spanish as a second language and heritage language, teacher education, and general issues in applied linguistics. His most recent works include Multiliteracies, Multimodality, and Learning by Design in Second Language Learning and Teacher Education (2025, Routledge).