O papel da educação bilingue na preservação da identidade cultural: caso da Escola Primária do 1 ̊ Grau de Sabié

Abstract

The present work has as its theme "The Role of Bilingual Education in the Preservation of Cultural Identity: Case of the Primary School of the 1st Grade of Sabié". of study the contribution of bilingual education in the preservation of students' cultural identity from Sabie's EP1. The study has as research problem: How bilingual education contributes to the preservation of the cultural identity of the EP1 students of Sabié? In this study if put two hypotheses: students, when doing their school initiation, through the local language, increasingly consolidate their habits and customs; The current bilingual education in Mozambique does not contribute to the preservation of local culture by using this model as transient. As a general objective, the study aimed to analyze the role of bilingual education in preserving the cultural identity of Sabié EP1 students. The work aimed at achieving the following specific objectives: Understanding the relevance of teaching broadcast through the local language; Identify bilingual education models and their influence on cultural preservation; Relate bilingual education with cultural identity. To the materialization of this study, the work uses a mixed approach, that is, an approach quantitative and qualitative, still in the methodology, the target population and the sample are presented, extracted at random, for the students, for the convenience of the teachers, the direction of the school and snowball for parents. As a case study, where interprets a social phenomenon, the qualitative method in this study was used for the interpretation of the various perceptions of students, teachers, school management and guardians. The study concludes that the predominance of Changana language speakers in the same region, enable bilingual education; the local language spoken by students facilitates their communication with the teachers; the bilingual education model used in Sabié's EP1 is transitional and not guarantees the long-term preservation of culture; The linguistic enrichment model is considered the most effective because it contemplates L1 and L2 simultaneously; bilingual education helps in understanding, assimilating and valuing local uses, habits and customs, as well as the learning in the local language, facilitates the identification of their own culture. In this way the bilingual education contributes to the preservation of the cultural identity of Sabié EP1 students.