Dr. Encarnacion (Encarna) Bermejo, associate professor of Spanish, was a symposium panelist at the XX International Symposium of Hispanic Studies on June 23 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The topic of the symposium panel was “Teaching the language, how to analyze the media and linguistic proposal” and Dr. Bermejo presented her paper titled “Emerging morphological system in the writing of students of Spanish as a Heritage Language”. At the conference, Dr. Bermejo also presented a poster that discussed the Spanish Placement Exam for Heritage Speakers.