Ecuador: Legitimate Peripheral Participation And Language Learning: Two Quichua Learners In A ...

Ecuador: Legitimate Peripheral Participation And Language Learning: Two Quichua Learners In A Transnational Community Michele Back, 2011   Using data from a multisited ethnography of Ecuadorian transnational musicians, I applied Lave and Wenger's (1991) concept of legitimate peripheral participation and Jacoby and Ochs's (1995) notion of co-construction to examine two musicians’ attempts to learn Quichua, an Ecuadorian indigenous language. Through an analysis aided by constructivist...

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