Saving our roots: nahuatl and the importance of bilingual education in bilingual schools
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2014-05
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"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."
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