Indigenous Youth as Language Policy Makers

摘要: This article offers a grounded view of language shift as experienced by Native American youth across range early- to late-shift settings. Drawing on data from long-term ethnographic study, we demonstrate that the linguistic ecologies in which choices play out are more complex than unidirectional notion might suggest. We focus 3 areas research: practices, communicative repertoires, and attitudes ideologies. The portraits use emerge show these be dynamic, heteroglossic environments deploy diverse sociolinguistic abilities for specific purposes context peer, school, community cultures. Further, argue youth's practices represent de facto manifestations policy making. final sections examine mechanisms underlying this implicit making implications school-community planning empowerment.