Spanish as a second language when L1 is Quechua: Endangered languages and the SLA researcher

Abstract

Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Quechua is the largest indigenous language family to constitute the first language (L1) of second language (L2) Spanish speakers. Despite sheer number of speakers and typologically interesting contrasts, Quechua-Spanish second language acquisition is a nearly untapped research area, due to the marginalization of Quechua-speaking people. This review considers contributions to the field of second language acquisition gleaned from studying the grammars of Quechua speakers who learn Spanish as well as monolingual Quechua and Spanish speakers in the contact area. Contribution to the documentation and revitalization of the Quechua languages is discussed as an ethical and scientific imperative.

Influencia del umbral lingüístico en la competencia lectora en estudiantes de educación superior

“…El español es uno de los idiomas más hablados en el mundo, puesto que unas 483 millones de personas lo tienen como lengua materna (Instituto Cervantes, 2019), mientras que el quechua es la lengua indígena más grande que se constituye en lengua materna (L1) de los hablantes del español como segunda lengua (L2) (Kalt, 2012). El Censo Nacional 2007 indica que el Perú cuenta con 3,261,750 de personas (13%) que hablan quechua como su primera lengua, siendo Ancash, Ayacucho, Cusco, Huancavelica, Apurímac y Puno los departamentos que albergan los distritos con mayor densidad quechua (Andrade, 2019).…”