Formação docente e metodologia de ensino da língua Ticuna: um estudo da educação escolar indígena do nível fundamental ao médio

Abstract

The research aims at analyzing teacher training courses, as well as the teaching-learning methods applied to Ticuna Language (TL) classes. Ticuna is an isolated indigenous language, spoken at the Triple Frontier region, along the junction of Basil, Colombia and Peru. The methods analyzed here were the ones employed in the training of students from Elementary to High School, and are based on our teaching experience in the Escola Municipal Indígena Maravilha (pre and elementary education), and the Escola Estadual Indígena Professor Gildo Sampaio Megatanücü (high-school education); both these schools are located in the municipality of Benjamin Constant, in the state of Amazonas. This work constitutes a Research-Action proposal that aims at promoting the teaching-learning of the Ticuna Language in the area villages and cities and investigate the teaching materials used to promote it. To this end, up-to-date teaching methodologies are discussed, whose objective is to develop skills and capabilities through playful activities promoting creative learning and motivating students. The indigenous language teaching methodology is exemplified through proposed activities that focus on the study of the sound structure of the language words for the first years of Elementary School and in mastering the formation of words based on their syllabic structure in High School. Activities like these are crucial in order to favor the reading and writing of increasingly complex texts.