Beyond the Bilingual Classroom: Literacy Acquisition Among Peruvian Amazon Communities (Sil International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, 117) 1st edition

Presents results of study of the factors that affect literacy acquisition in both the mother tongue and Spanish by the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Map

Part I. Background Information

1. Introduction

1.1 Purpose of the study
1.2 Research questions
1.3 Overview of the study
1.4 Definitions
1.5 Limitations and delimitations
1.6 Significance of the study

2.1 Before the sixteenth century
2.2 Earliest contact with the West: Explorers and missionaries
2.3 Commercialization of the Amazon
2.4 The twentieth century: Integration into Peruvian national society
2.5 History of the bilingual education program

3.1 Ethnicity
3.2 Ethnicity and nationalism
3.3 Language and ethnicity
3.4 Language and culture
3.5 Summary

4.1 Literacy versus schooling
4.2 Language and schooling
4.3 Language and literacy
4.4 Conclusion

5.1 Foundations
5.2 Description of field research

Part II. Language Group Profiles

1. The Aguaruna

6.1 Historical framework
6.2 Ethnic identity and language maintenance
6.3 Educational factors
6.4 Summary

7.1 Historical framework
7.2 Ethnic identity and language maintenance
7.3 Educational factors
7.4 Summary

8.1 Historical framework
8.2 Ethnic identity and language maintenance
8.3 Educational factors
8.4 Summary

9.1 Historical framework
9.2 Ethnic identity and language maintenance
9.3 Educational factors
9.4 Summary

10.1 Historical framework
10.2 Ethnic identity and language maintenance
10.3 Educational factors
10.4 Summary

11.1 Historical framework
11.2 Ethnic identity and language maintenance
11.3 Educational factors
11.4 Summary

12.1 Historical framework
12.2 Ethnic identity and language maintenance
12.3 Educational factors
12.4 Summary

13.1 Historical framework
13.2 Ethnic identity and language maintenance
13.3 Educational factors
13.4 Summary

14.1 Specific factors
14.2 Factors with multiple effects
14.3 Discussion
14.4 Conclusion

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