Publications

Publication details [#39766]

Paciotto, Carla. 2004. Language Policy, Indigenous Languages and the Village School: A Study of Bilingual Education for the Tarahumara of Northern Mexico. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 7 (6) : 529–548.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | ethnography | language and culture | language maintenance | language shift

Language as a subject

Spanish | Tarahumara

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This ethnographic case study investigates the sociocultural contexts of the implementation of the Mexican "Bilingual Bicultural Education Program" (BBEP) (1991) in a federal school serving Tarahumara indigenous populations, the role of the school and the BBEP in indigenous language maintenance, and the way that state-developed BBEP goals match teachers' and parents' expectations of school and (bi)literacy.