Teaching Nahuatl Through Poetry: A Didactic Intervention Using the Genre- Based Pedagogy Reading to Learn ; Enseñar náhuatl a través de la poesía: Una intervención didáctica desde la pedagogía de género Leer para Aprender ; Apprendre le nahuatl à travers la poésie : Une intervention didactique fondé sur la pédagogie des genres Lire pour Apprendre ; Ensinar náhuatle por meio da poesia: Uma intervenção didática desde a pedagogia de gênero Ler para Aprender

The social, cultural and educational disadvantage suffered by the indigenous population in Mexico has been extensively documented. The country lacks a clear educational policy on indigenous education, which is evident in a methodological and instrumental gap within the classrooms. For this reason, the Master’s program in Academic Literacies and Discourse Studies at Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, favors interventions that address this problem and contribute to change this adverse panorama. One of these interventions is presented here. Its objective was to teach náhuatl as a second language by using the principles and methodology of the Reading to Learn program from systemic functional linguistics through contemporary poetic texts written in náhuatl. The results of this implementation suggest the didactic unit confronted the participants with a new way of understanding the pedagogical actions of languages, which led them to be more participative and experience meaningful learning in the classroom. Additionally, this exercise highlighted the importance of explicit and situated scaffolding processes to achieve the construction of more authentic and efficient intercultural learning environments that reappraise the indigenous language, as promoted by this methodology. ; La desventaja social, cultural y educativa sufrida por la población indígena en México ha sido extensamente documentada. El país carece de una política educativa clara en materia de educación indígena, lo cual se evidencia en un vacío metodológico e instrumental dentro de las aulas. Por ello, en el programa de Maestría de Literacidades Académicas y Estudios del Discurso de la Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, se han favorecido intervenciones que aborden esta problemática y contribuyan a cambiar este adverso panorama. Una de estas intervenciones es la que aquí se presenta. Esta tuvo como objetivo la enseñanza del náhuatl como segunda lengua, utilizando los principios y la metodología del programa Leer para Aprender de la lingüística ...