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Research leading to the revision of an intensive Spanish grammar review course for heritage speakers.

This project will research and analyze Spanish toponymy in Colorado including the place-names of cities, counties and geographical accidents. Rather than creating a list of names in order to collect information about the origin and meaning of each (as could be expected from a more traditional etymological or taxonomic study), the project will instead focus on how place-names practices and politics have produced spaces imbued with cultural significance and social power. Therefore, the toponymic study of Colorado Spanish places will be approached from a historical, political and personal point of view. I plan to use the collected materials, sources and subsequent research to revise and improve one of the intermediate grammar courses I usually teach by providing a cultural and historical thematic thread to the class SPA 2750-Intensive Spanish Grammar Review, a class initially created for Spanish heritage speakers that is offered year-round.