University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2019 Youth Bilingualism, Identity And Quechua Language Planning And Policy In The rbU an Peruvian Andes Frances Julia Kvietok Dueñas University of Pennsylvania,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics Commons, Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Latin American Languages and Societies Commons, and the Latin American Studies Commons Recommended Citation Kvietok Dueñas, Frances Julia, "Youth Bilingualism, Identity And Quechua Language Planning And Policy In The rU ban Peruvian Andes" (2019). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 3293. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3293 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3293 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Youth Bilingualism, Identity And Quechua Language Planning And Policy In The rbU an Peruvian Andes Abstract Quechua language education and research has long been relegated to rural areas and elementary schools of the Andes. Nonetheless, current language policy in the southern Peruvian region of Cusco has opened new opportunities for Quechua, a minoritized Indigenous language, to be taught in cities and towns and in high schools. In this sociolinguistic context, this dissertation explores what it means for youth in the contemporary urban Andes to be speakers and learners of Quechua, as well as how youth influence the maintenance of Quechua in contexts of ongoing language shift ot Spanish. Through a 20-month long ethnographic and participatory study in Urubamba, a provincial capital of the region of Cusco, and its surrounding areas, I examine youth bilingualism and identity positionings spanning school and out-of- school experiences.