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Title: Quechua Language Instruction and Assessment across the Americas: Challenges and Solutions. Routledge Research in Language Education
Language: English
Authors: Marilyn S. Manley, Chad Howe
Source: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2026.
Availability: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 7625 Empire Drive, Florence, KY 41042. Tel: 800-634-7064; Fax: 800-248-4724; e-mail: cserve@routledge-ny.com; Web site: http://www.routledge.com
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Page Count: 222
Publication Date: 2026
Intended Audience: Teachers; Students
Document Type: Book
Collected Works - General
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indian Languages, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Minorities, Cultural Education
Geographic Terms: South America, United States, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador
ISBN: 978-1-03-274178-9
Abstract: Quechua, with nearly ten million speakers living primarily across the Andes, stands as the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas today. Yet, this less commonly taught language (LCTL) continues to face significant challenges. This work illuminates and interrogates current barriers to Quechua language instruction and assessment within the United States, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru. Collectively, the contributions to this volume offer a way forward with suggestions and solutions aimed at building the capacity of Quechua language stakeholders. The volume describes barriers to effective Quechua language instruction and assessment, such as the problematic implementation of Intercultural Bilingual Education (IBE) in Peru and Ecuador, ineffective Quechua language learning materials, and inadequate Quechua language assessment instruments. To address these challenges, this work offers three primary solutions: expanding the target audience for Quechua language instruction and language learning materials, creating communicative language learning materials that reflect culturally appropriate, real-life situations and include nativized grammatical descriptions, and making necessary modifications to language proficiency assessment instruments. As such, it provides a blueprint for pushing Quechua language instruction and assessment beyond its current status and into a future in which instructors and students are offered high-quality, culturally grounded classroom experiences. These solutions may also apply to other LCTLs and, in particular, to other Indigenous languages of the Americas and beyond. This timely volume, which responds to UNESCO's Global Call for Action in declaring 2022-2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, is essential reading for scholars, faculty, and students with interests in Indigenous languages, language acquisition (L1/L2), language pedagogy, language policy, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and decolonizing approaches to education.
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