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Saving our roots: nahuatl and the importance of bilingual education in bilingual schools
(2014-05) Corril Carvente, Araceli; Sánchez González, Monserrat
"In Mexico there are many bilingual schools in many bilingual communities. In Puebla, as was mentioned before, is one of the states with this characteristic. In The Sierra Norte of Puebla and in South Puebla, in the Mixteca, is one of the communities that still have Nahuatl as their mother tongue. This community is a completely bilingual community and it has a bilingual elementary school. However this school faces a problem of a decreasing number of students. It happens because the lack of information about the importance of an indigenous language. For that reason another goal of this project consists of knowing the causes of the decrease of students in the bilingual elementary school and looking for some methods in order to increase the number of students making people conscious about the importance of their language. As adults we are aware of the value of being bilingual, for that reason the objective of this project is to help the people of this bilingual community (adults, young people and children) to explore and to discover the real meaning of being a bilingual person. In short, it is our hope that people become aware of all the advantages that come with being a bilingual person."