Language Science Talks: Storybook Mexico: Best practices to promote children's literacies in Indigenous languages​

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This talk will discuss ideas to promote children´s literacies in the indigenous languages in Mexico.

In Mexico, all indigenous languages are minority languages, some of which have several linguistic variants that are in different situations and degrees of vitality and endangerment. Today, these languages are undergoing varying processes of standardization. Also, a portion of the indigenous children learns to read and write in the native language during the first years of primary school. However, relatively few indigenous speakers have developed literacies in their mother tongue.

The unequal situation and position of indigenous languages in Mexico creates a challenging situation for the support of indigenous literacies. 

Presenter Anuschka van ‘t Hooft is a research professor at the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. As a cultural anthropologist, she specializes in Mexican indigenous languages and cultures. Her research interests lie in the areas of oral traditions, language documentation and revitalization, and collaborative research.

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