Sara Beaudrie

Sara Beaudrie received her doctorate in second language and teaching with a minor in Spanish linguistics from the University of Arizona. She earned her master's teaching English as a second language from there as well. Her research interests include heritage language development and classroom instruction, language program development, bilingualism, heritage language assessment and literacy development, and critical approaches to HL pedagogy. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented in national conferences on heritage language pedagogy and development. She is the co-editor of Spanish as a heritage language in the United States: "The State of the Field," published by Georgetown University Press and the co-author of  “Heritage language pedagogy: Research and Practice,” published with McGraw Hill. Her co-edited book (2016) is entitled: "Innovative strategies for heritage language teaching: Guidelines for the classroom." Her most recent co-edited book (2022) is "Heritage Language Teaching: Critical Language Awareness Perspectives for Research and Pedagogy" with Routledge. 

Professor Beaudrie was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina but has been living in Arizona for the past 22 years. She came to ASU from the University of Arizona, where she was an associate professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department and directed the Spanish for heritage learners program. For the School of International Letters and Cultures, she is in charge of the Spanish heritage language program and is the Associate Director for SILC. As Professor of Spanish linguistics, she teaches graduate courses in second and heritage language pedagogy and bilingualism. She is also the lead faculty for the PhD track in heritage language pedagogy and research in the new PhD in Spanish Linguistics.