Writing literary texts in kiwcha in bilingual higher education

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to determine a didactic strategy when writing literary texts in the Kichwa language in the “Fray Bartolomé de las Casas” Educational Center of the Salasaka parish, in the Province of Tungurahua, Ecuador. This research allows the students of the bilingual education program to be motivated when writing this type of literature, which is currently transmitted orally. The resulting products generated have served as material for the literature subject in the area of Ancestral Language and Culture. On the other hand, this work has encouraged research into the Kichwa grammar among Kichwa-speaking teachers, given that this study makes the written and the literary composition possible in their ancestral language, as well as in other areas that do not have a written form, and thus, tend to disappear. For all the above-mentioned facts, a descriptive and inductive research method has been used along with a survey and questionnaire technique. The analysis of the data obtained has revealed the lack of Kichwa literary production in Bilingual Education projects and has promoted the development by the high school students of texts written in Kichwa based on the stories collected from the verbal interviews with the elderly of the town and their relatives.