Returnees student´s beliefs about learning nahuatl as a third language

Abstract

"The objective of this project was to explore and identify the returnees’ students’ beliefs about learning Nahuatl as a third language. This research was carry out in a bilingual school called Escuela Bilingue Niños Heroes de Chapultepec in Nealtican Puebla Mexico. The participants were 15 returnees’ students from this elementary school. Returnees’ students come back with their parents from the USA to Nealtican. They have acquired Spanish and English before. When they start to live in Nealtican they face with the necessity of learning Nahuatl. For the project, case of study was applied, it means that narrative approach, qualitative and quantitative methods were considered in order to collect the data. The instruments applied were a questionnaire, diaries and interviews, the instruments asked for personal information, academic background, social integration and learning Nahuatl as a third language related to their feelings, challenges and teachers’ methods. The diaries were applied to 15 returnees, the interviews were applied to 5 returnees and questionnaire to the 15 returnees’ students."