The Observatory of the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures in the United States is a research center of the Instituto Cervantes at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, intended for the study of Spanish in the U.S., both in its linguistic and cultural dimensions.

Estudios del Observatorio/Observatorio Studies. 071-05/2021EN 

This study is the product of a collaboration between the Initiative for the Teaching of Spanish as a Heritage Language within Harvard’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) and the Instituto Cervantes’ Observatory at Harvard, in conjunction with a dedicated team of Spanish instructors at the secondary and university level. This project arose from an interest in offering a teacher-training opportunity to better serve Latinx students in Spanish-language classrooms at these levels. The project consisted of ten workshops, including six theoretical-practical sessions on topics relevant to teaching Spanish as a heritage language and four sessions on designing and developing materials for this same student population and for mixed classrooms.

You can read the report here: Estudios del Observatorio by María Luisa Parra Velasco Harvard University