A resistência indígena e o processo de aprendizagem esso de aprendizagem bilíngue e intercultural no ensino da língua AKWE-XERENTE.

Abstract

The present research raises to transpose the importance of the second language to the academic social use and the challenges faced in teacher training at the Federal University of Tocantins. Our general objective is to analyze the difficulties of indigenous people in the classroom and explain the composition of the Xerente alphabet and the phonemic characteristics of the letters. The research is divided into four sections, we address the Akwe indigenous people, the language, the bilingual learning process in the teaching of the Akwe language and the difficulties of indigenous people at the university. The indigenous languages of Brazil are threatened with extinction. This is what a study by the United Nations Union for Education, Science and Culture – UNESCO published in February 2019 reveals, which places indigenous languages among another 2,500 in danger of disappearing in the coming years. In the era of globalization, the disappearance of languages can occur not only by the will of the enemies of the Indians, but by a movement that affects all peoples and cultures on the planet. Resistance, however, continues. Therefore, it is extremely important to preserve the spoken and written language and recover what is gradually being lost, because according to the elders our identity is the Akwẽ language and it is the origin that defines us. The Xerente language belongs to the jê linguistic family of the Macro-Jê linguistic branch and its closest linguistic relatives are the xavante, from Mato Grosso and the Xakriabá, from Minas Gerais. Therefore, it is essential to know the indigenous language, specifically the Xerente people, in which we are a plurilingual country, but we do not know the culture or the language of the other.