ABSTRACT
Traditional mass media – including print media – and the newer social media have combined to greatly expand access to information and other forms of discourse in Quechua and Aymara both locally and globally. In the 21st century, literacies in both traditional and emerging genres are presented through mass and social media as performances, both written and oral, and more recently in multimodal digital formats. Multimodal resources used as comprehensive and innovative pedagogical tools are contributing effectively to the teaching and learning of Quechua and Aymara as first and second languages. In this chapter, I shall demonstrate how these new developments support language policy and planning, specifically language revitalization and documentation of indigenous languages in the Andes and beyond.
