The Language Situation in Mexico

Terborg, Roland; Landa, Laura García; Moore, Pauline

doi:10.2167/cilp109.0

Cited by 28 publications

(13 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In some cases, the use of the languages was characterized by the rigid compartmentalization of Rarámuri within the family, home, and community boundaries and Spanish within interaction with Spanish‐speaking people. In a few other cases, bilingual Rarámuri mothers spoke only Spanish to their children at home, especially when living in the village or near the sawmill and in the context of “inter‐language marriages.” The Rarámuri situation in Cusárare seemed to reflect a general trait observed among Mexican Indigenous languages, which remain strong in rural and isolated areas (Terborg et al. 2006:435), where also the low presence of mestizos allowed for a “high saturation” (Baker 2006) of Rarámuri speakers.…”

Section: A Sociolinguistic Profile Of the Rarámuri Community And Schoolmentioning

confidence: 91%

Language and Literacy Planning and Local Contexts: The Case of a Rarámuri Community

Paciotto

2010

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

On the basis of a ten-month ethnography of a Rarámuri school and community, this article contributes to the understanding of the role of sociolinguistic and socioeconomic contexts in creating Indigenous-language maintenance programs. Employing concepts of micro-and macrolevel variables in language endangerment and language vitality scales, it provides an example of how these variables should inform language and literacy planning (LLP). It also discusses how LLP for Indigenous communities needs to embrace a biocultural diversity perspective. [Rarámuri, Tarahumara, language maintenance and shift, language policy and planning, bilingual education, indigenous education, Mexico] Local Contexts and Literacies for Endangered Language PlanningIn their review of the language planning research field, Liddicoat and Baldauf (2008) explain that this has traditionally centered on studying top-down government language

show abstract

Section: A Sociolinguistic Profile Of the Rarámuri Community And Schoolmentioning

confidence: 91%

Language and Literacy Planning and Local Contexts: The Case of a Rarámuri Community

Paciotto

2010

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…However, this learner's statement is not clear as to the source of learners' low motivation concerning teaching practices. Nine of the participant teachers felt that learners' low motivation was caused by a reliance on textbooks, as cautioned by Terborg, García Landa, and Moore (2006). According to the participant teachers, it is the administration which has imposed the use of textbooks despite the fact that the content of the textbooks is not related to the objectives of the curriculum.…”

Section: Extract 14mentioning

confidence: 99%

Foreign Language Planning: The Case of a Teacher/Translator Training Programme at a Mexican University

Velázquez

García-Ponce

2018

Profile: Issues Teach. Prof. Dev.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The present article reports on a study that set out to investigate the effectiveness of strategies and decisions formulated in foreign language planning to ensure learners' language achievement in a higher education context which trains learners to become English or French teachers or translators. By drawing on data collected from simulated proficiency tests and interviews with students, teachers, and administrators, the findings show that the foreign language goals have not been met as stipulated in the curriculum, and that there are several shortcomings in the foreign language planning that need the educational community's consideration. This article also discusses some factors that should be considered in foreign language planning in order to meet language goals in educational contexts.Key words: Curriculum, English as a foreign language, language planning, low proficiency level, teacher training.El presente estudio se realizó con el objetivo de explorar la efectividad de estrategias y decisiones como parte de una planificación de lenguas extranjeras. Esta planificación lingüística se ha implementado para promover la competencia lingüística como parte de una licenciatura que prepara estudiantes para ser maestros o traductores de inglés o francés. Al explorar datos estadísticos y de entrevistas con estudiantes, maestros y administrativos, los resultados muestran que los objetivos de las lenguas extranjeras no se han logrado y hay varias limitantes con respecto a su planificación. Estos resultados son de gran relevancia para entender algunos factores que deberían ser considerados en una planificación lingüística con objetivos concernientes a las lenguas extranjeras en contextos de enseñanza y aprendizaje.Palabras clave: bajo nivel de lengua, curriculum, formación docente, inglés como lengua extranjera, planificación lingüística.

show abstract

“…While Mexico’s indigenous heritage was glorified in a movement known as Indigenismo , contemporary indigenous culture was seen as backward and inconsistent with a project of modernization and national unification. Educational policy during this time was explicitly focused on the castilianization ( castellanización ) of the indigenous population, or its conversion to the Spanish language (Stavenhagen 2002; de la Peña 2002; Terborg, García Landa and Moore 2008; Tinajero and Englander 2011). Critics of government-sponsored education programs and other economic assistance programs geared towards indigenous groups, charged that they were motivated by a homogenizing agenda that suppressed alternative cultural identities (Warman et al 1970; Bonfil Batalla 1996 [1987]).…”

Section: The Mexican State’s New Multicultural Agenda and Its Consequmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indigenous students are not generally given preferential treatment in university admissions. Educational programs geared towards indigenous schoolchildren are mostly concerned with providing bilingual education to children whose first language is not Spanish (Terborg, García Landa and Moore 2008). Government assistance programs are also largely need-based, rather than targeted at specific ethnic groups.…”

Section: The Mexican State’s New Multicultural Agenda and Its Consequmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnic Identification and Its Consequences for Measuring Inequality in Mexico

Villarreal

2014

Am Sociol Rev

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper examines ethnic boundary crossing and its impact on estimates of ethnic disparities in children’s outcomes in the specific context of Mexico, a country with the largest indigenous population in the Western hemisphere. The boundary that separates the indigenous and non-indigenous population is known to be extremely fluid as it is based on characteristics that can easily change within a generation such as language use, cultural practices and a subjective sense of belonging. Using data from the Mexican census I examine the ethnic classification of children of indigenous parents. I find that movement across the ethnic boundary depends on which of the two criteria currently recognized by the Mexican census is used. Children of indigenous parents are much less likely to be classified as indigenous according to language proficiency, especially when their parents have higher levels of education. By contrast, when proxy self-identification is used as a criterion, children of indigenous parents are more likely to be classified as indigenous, and greater parental education actually results in higher odds that children will be classified as indigenous. The shift in children’s indigenous classification with parental education is found to strongly affect estimates of educational disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous children.

show abstract

The Language Situation in Mexico

Cited by 28 publications

References 5 publications

Language and Literacy Planning and Local Contexts: The Case of a Rarámuri Community

Language and Literacy Planning and Local Contexts: The Case of a Rarámuri Community

Foreign Language Planning: The Case of a Teacher/Translator Training Programme at a Mexican University

Ethnic Identification and Its Consequences for Measuring Inequality in Mexico

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About