基本説明
Explores educational and community efforts to revitalize the Quichua language in two indigenous Andean communities of southern Ecuador.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Language revitalization; setting the scence; language use and ethnic identity in Lagunas; language use and ethnic identity in Tambopamba; Quichua instruction and the community schools; prospects and processes revisited.
