Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism: Language Identity, Ideology, and Practice in Dynamic Cultural Worlds - Paperback

by Leisy T. Wyman (Editor), Teresa L. McCarty (Editor), Sheilah E. Nicholas (Editor)

Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book looks at Indigenous youth in multiple endangered language communities, offering new theoretical insights and drawing out implications for language planning and policy and for projects to curtail language loss.

Author Biography

Leisy T. Wyman is Associate Professor in the Language, Reading and Culture Program, and affiliate faculty in the American Indian Studies and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Programs at the University of Arizona, USA.

Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Alice Wiley Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University, USA.

Sheilah E. Nicholas (Hopi) is Assistant Professor in the Language, Reading, and Culture Program, and affiliate faculty in the American Indian Studies and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Programs at the University of Arizona, USA.