%0 Journal Article
%T Reflexiones sobre una experiencia de investigacion- accion con ni£żos Indigenas
%A Hecht
%A Ana Carolina
%J Boletin de Linguistica
%D 2007
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X processes that involve linguistic shift threaten indigenous languages. this problem is of great concern for academics as well as non-academics interested in these ethnic groups.anthropologist and linguistis have initiated projects to help prevent the disappearance of endangered languages. the aim of this paper is to analyze a particular case of collaborative research project, focused on the revitalization of toba (an indigenous language spoken in argentine). the present study examined an urban setting where monolingual practices (spanish) are replacing bilingual ones (spanish-toba). consequently, many children are rapidly shifting to spanish and losing their command of the toba language
%K linguistic shift
%K childhood
%K action research.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0798-97092007000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en