Strengthening reading and writing in students from the oral tradition of the Mayasquer indigenous reservation

Abstract

The research approaches the oral traditions of the communities from their potential of application for the strengthening of reading and writing, added to the secondary benefit on the preservation and consolidation of their traditions. Therefore, the oral traditions of the Mayasquer indigenous reservation of Tallambí in the municipality of Cumbal are identified, together with the reading and writing performance of the students, subsequently an innovative pedagogical proposal is developed for the school classroom that integrates their oral traditions with the purpose of strengthening reading and writing in elementary school students of the Immaculate Conception Educational Institution; The research was carried out through a qualitative methodology, from hermeneutics, with the support of the research instruments: conceptual ordering, pedagogical social mapping and content analysis, with which the story "la moledora" was identified where cultural values are presented, additionally, regarding reading and writing skills in students were found levels below the course in which they are, along with poorly legible handwriting, among other factors evaluated (addition, substitution, slow reading, omission inversion and guessing). According to the information obtained, the pedagogical proposal "Recovering our ancestral knowledge for textual production" is formulated.