The main objective of this study is to describe the context of the
features of the sociocultural, economical and linguistics of the
native teachers in bilingual education in the region of Valle
del Mezquital in México; talking about their language history,
and professional formations in the language usage in the
classroom.
Analyzing the language and
sociocultural features of the native teachers in elementary
education through the pressure model makes it is
possible to observe the weakeness of the native languages. This
is not only because of the attitude or language competence of
the speakers but is also compounded by the unequal social,
cultural and economic relationships of power that are present in
daily life during
the communication proceses of the indigenous population in the
various domains, such as education, family, and work.
One of the features of these
teachers is their literacy in Spanish language. This has enabled
them to build a socially shared knowledge in Spanish about the
academic contents of the school which is now a shared facility,
producing such a knowledge day by day through the teaching work
with students, so that the indigenous language is taken away
from the scholarly domain.
On the other hand, the self
perception of their language competence is a factor that acts as
a contrary pressure or the fear of failure in communication, and
this leads to an experimental, ideological conflict inside the
paradigms of competition which reafirms the history of opression
that indigenous people have endured for centuries.
The characteristics pointed out
above in association with the lack of
didactic materials and books in hñähñu, the lack of
definitive plans and programs for language teaching, and the
presence of trilingual people each day produced by the migration
phenomenon, are all facts that contribute little to the vitality
of the minority language.