Student Information
Graduate Student
Spanish Linguistics
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Sarah Henderson is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Spanish Bilingualism in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the School of International Letters and Cultures. Her teaching experience includes different levels of language courses for both second language and heritage language learners in hybrid and online modalities, in addition to Spanish linguistics courses.
Her research interests centers sociolingusitics and heritage language pedagogy. Specifically, she conducts research on language ideologies, critical language awareness, heritage language education, multiliteracies and multimodality.
Education
- PhD Spanish Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Heritage Language Pedagogy, Arizona State University
- MA Spanish Literature and Linguistics, San Diego State University
- BA Spanish Literature and Linguistics, San Diego State University
- BAS Public Administration, San Diego State University
Research Interests
Bilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Heritage Language Pedagogy, Spanish in the U.S., Language Ideologies, Critical Language Awareness, Social Media
Publications
Journal Articles
Henderson, S. (2025). Language TikTok-ologías: Representations of Language Ideologies among U.S. Bilingual Spanish-Speakers on TikTok. Bilingual Review.
Henderson, S., & Marrero-Rivera, A. (2025). Negotiating power and identity: Novice-expert dynamics in Spanish heritage and second language speaker interactions. Language Awareness, 1-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2025.2552156
Fernandez, S., Gradoville, M., Langenhorst, H., & Henderson, S. (2025) Categorización fonémica de input variable por estudiantes de español como L2. Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 14(1), 165–202. https://doi.org/10.7557/1.14.1.8001
Book Reviews
Henderson, S. (2024). Communicative Intersections of Bilingualism in Society: A book review: Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts. Spanish as a Heritage Language Journal, 4(1), 125-128.
Courses
2026 Fall
2026 Summer
2025 Summer
2025 Spring
2024 Fall
2024 Summer
2024 Spring
2023 Fall
2023 Summer
2023 Spring
2022 Fall
2022 Summer
2022 Spring
2021 Fall