Jean Léo Léonard, who teaches at Université Paris-Sorbonne, France, in the areas of General and Applied Linguistics and Linguistic Typology, teaches students of one of the postgraduate programs related to materials Didactics for the teaching of languages.

 

"I was invited to share a methodology of workshops for the development of teaching materials, but also for an environmental diagnosis linked to biodiversity and diversity of languages, particularly with regard to Cauca," said Jean Léo Léonard.

 

He pointed out that starting from the great problem of intercultural bilingual education, an initial training of teachers is projected, most of which is in Spanish, so it would not be bilingual or intercultural. The workshop shares a methodology developed with artists, teachers, linguists and anthropologists from institutions in Guatemala and Mexico.

 

According to the professor, "the idea is to do a very collective work, we work with activities that have well-defined guidelines, how to teach the language, for example its grammar we teach by making billboards that then we move to a text that has to do with aspects of the culture (of each region) in a pleasant way. "

 

For example, he cited that in the case of the Misak community, an armadillo was chosen, describing it in the first person and so on, both singular and plural.

 

The Master in Revitalization and Teaching of Indigenous Languages ​​seeks to promote training and research in the field of revitalization and teaching of indigenous languages, in order to favor the identification and construction of educational and pedagogical processes that contribute to the strengthening and development of the same.

 

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