Heritage Bilingualism in the UK: the case of mood selection in Spanish varieties of Latin America

传统语言使用者（HS）是指第二代移民，他们在国内习得传统语言（HL），但却成为该国主流语言的主导者。我将通过记录英国传统西班牙语的指示语气和虚拟语气的选择来研究HL的习得和发展：（i）测试和挑战旨在解释HL习得的三个主要假设;（ii）为HS制定一个语言培训计划，以了解明确的指导是否会影响HS的语气选择。2021年人口普查显示，在过去的十年里，英国讲西班牙语的人翻了一番，因此调查其在英国的具体特征变得更加紧迫，因为移民轨迹和语言历史与美国背景大不相同。（7-18/19-30）将允许我测试HL获得的主要假设，为欧洲背景下该领域的理论发展做出了重大贡献，同时弥合了美国和英国研究之间的差距。将为协调制度制定一个培训方案，提供原始材料，供伦敦各语言中心分享。最后，本文将揭示英国拉丁美洲社区的社会语言学特征。因此，它将增加该国不断增长的演讲者社区的可信度。

Heritage speakers (HS) are 2nd-generation immigrants whoacquire their heritage language (HL) at home, but theybecome dominant in the majority language of the country. Iwill investigate HL acquisition and development bydocumenting indicative vs subjunctive mood selection ofheritage Spanish in the UK (i)to test and challenge the threeleading hypotheses which aim at explaining HL acquisition;(ii)to develop a language training programme for HS to seeif explicit instruction can influence HS's mood selection.Most of HS literature was developed in the US, where 15%of their population is Spanish speaker. Census 2021 showedthat Spanish speakers doubled in the UK in the last tenyears, so investigating its specific features in the UKbecomes more pressing, as the migration trajectories andlinguistic history differ greatly from the UScontext.Comparing children and adult HS of Spanish (7-18/19-30) will allow me to test the main hypotheses in HLacquisition, providing a substantial contribution to thetheoretical development of the field from the Europeancontext, while bridging the gap between studies in the USand the UK. A training programme for HS will be developed,contributing with original material to be shared in variouslanguage centres in London. Lastly, it will shed light on thesociolinguistic characteristics of the Latin Americancommunity in the U.K. As such, it will increase the visibilityof an ever-rising community of Speakers in the country.