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Hernández, Amalia W.; Campos, Iván; Zyskind, Karen Zuniga – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Meeting the needs of Maya children in U.S. schools requires extensive training. Research is lacking in best practices to support students with intersectional identities. This article provides a roadmap centralized on Maya children's experiences, acknowledging the linguistic diversity of Maya immigrants, their language and cultural…
Descriptors: Translation, Speech Language Pathology, Student Needs, Maya (People)
Domínguez, Mariana – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2020
This article is a personal reflection about the acknowledgement of my "taken-for-granted frames of reference" (Mezirow, 2003, p. 59), which were replicating the hegemonic narrative I grew up surrounded by as a white, Mexican, Spanish-speaker; while hindering a more thorough understanding of the educational and linguistic topics that…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Maya (People)
Dynia, Jaclyn M.; Purtell, Kelly M.; Justice, Laura M.; Pratt, Amy S.; Hijlkema, Maria J. – Early Education and Development, 2020
This study provides a broad, macro-analysis of how the home literacy environment (HLE) manifests among Mayan families with preschool-aged children in Yucatan, Mexico. Despite a substantial body of work showing the significant contribution of the HLE to children's reading achievement in the U.S., little work examines the HLE and children's learning…
Descriptors: Maya (People), Family Literacy, Family Environment, Preschool Children
Bengochea, Alain; Justice, Laura M.; Hijlkema, Maria J. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This study serves as an initial inquiry regarding the early print knowledge of emergent bilingual preschool-age children living in an Indigenous community in Mexico. In this research, we examine various dimensions of print knowledge with Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children for whom one of their languages (Yucatec Maya) is seldom seen in print…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mayan Languages, Spanish, Bilingualism
Mijangos-Noh, Juan Carlos; Romero-Gamboa, Fabiola – Online Submission, 2008
In this paper we present our study of the use of Mayan and Spanish in nine groups of pupils in bilingual elementary schools in the Mayan area of the Yucatan State, Mexico. Michael Cole's, as well as Guillermo Bonfil's, perspectives were used for the data analysis, in the sense of considering language as a cultural artifact, and an element of…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Elementary Schools, Maya (People), Educational Change

Wilhite, Margaret – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1982
Presents data that show the effect of different types of marketing in the incidence and degree of bilingualism among women from Pajuyu and Maqenya, two Guatemalan Indian Communities. Discusses the influence on bilingualism of the amount and kind of interaction that takes place between Indian women and non-Indians as a result of textile marketing.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cakchiquel, Culture Contact, Females
Linguistic Reporter, 1974
The general goals of the Guatemalan technical institution, the Proyecto Linguistico Francisco Marroquin, are to: create a national technical resource institution in linguistics and Mayan languages; enable Indians to influence programs for their communities; and stimulate the study of Mayan languages and their use as communication medium. (SW)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Higher Education, Linguistics, Maya (People)
Richards, Julia Becker – 1983
To examine the process of language shift (bilingualization) in an area where there is a local dialect equivalent to a "language of solidarity" and a national language equivalent to a "language of power," language interactions in the impoverished village of San Marcos in the highlands of Guatemala were examined. Although Spanish…
Descriptors: Bidialectalism, Bilingualism, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences
Herrera Pena, Guillermina; Raymundo, Jorge Manuel – Cultural Survival Quarterly, 1998
Guatemala is overhauling its justice system to be more congruent with its indigenous reality. A Rafael Landivar University program trains indigenous legal translators not only in legal and linguistic aspects, but also in strengthening indigenous identity and student commitment to the community. Challenges and future plans are described. A former…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bilingualism, College Programs, Courts