This work explores educational and community efforts to revitalize the Quichua language in two indigenous Andean communities of southern Ecuador. Analyzing the linguistic, social, and cultural processes of positive language shift, this book contributes to our understanding of formal and informal educational efforts to revitalize threatened languages.
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Foreword by Nancy Hornberger
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Language Revitalization
2 Setting the Scene
3 Language Use and Ethnic Identity in Lagunas
4 Language Use and Ethnic Identity in Tambopamba
5 Quichua Instruction and the Community Schools
6 Prospects and Processes Revisited
Appendices
References
Indices
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Kendall A. King is a Professor of Second Language Education at the University of Minnesota. Her scholarship examines ideological, interactional and policy perspectives on second language learning and bilingualism, with particular attention to educational practices impacting language use among Indigenous populations in Latin America and Spanish and Somali speakers in the U.S. She teaches graduate-level courses in sociolinguistics, language policy, language research methods, and language education and undergraduate courses in linguistics, and is incoming president of the American Association of Applied Linguistics.
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