Fostering Students’ Indigenous Language Skills

implementation

The aim is to develop, validate, and evaluate a digital language application for learning one Andean indigenous language. The digital language application will be user friendly and be possible to use offline. For example, the application could be used on a mobile phone, which has strong penetration in poor and rural areas across Latin America (even the poorest countries in the region have more mobile phones than population). The specific objectives are to: (i) develop a digital language application in one indigenous language; (ii) conduct an experimental pilot with some 4,000 indigenous students in Quechua-speaking communities (e.g. in Huancavelica, Ayacucho or Apurimac); (iii) conduct a rigorous evaluation; and (iv) disseminate the results.