Vargas Melgarejo, Gaby Gabriela
Object Details
| Given Name(s) | Gaby Gabriela |
| Surname(s) | Vargas Melgarejo |
| Sex | F |
| Place of Origin | Quillacollo, Cochabamba, Bolivia |
| Description | Gaby Vargas Melgarejo is a Quechua and Spanish speaking indigenous woman from Tiquipaya, Bolivia. She is passionate about analyzing her native language and hopes to create materials to meet the demand for Bolivian families to read, write and study it. She is also interested in contributing to linguistic science based on Andean languages and world views. She has an undergraduate degree in Quechua language from the Universidad Mayor de San Simon; her thesis was based on observing and assisting teachers in public elementary schools in Tiquipaya. She holds a master’s degree in Sociolinguistics from the Program in Bilingual Intercultural Education (ProEIB Andes) at the same university. Her master’s thesis involved three months of participant observation in the Tarabuco region, living with rural families and exploring the effects on the language of widespread migration to towns and cities.BA Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching 2016; MA Sociolinguistics 2019; Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Cochabamba, Bolivia. |
| Depositor Status | N |
| Native Language(s) | Quechua Spanish |
| Research Language(s) | Quechua, South Bolivian |
| Other Language(s) Spoken | English |
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