Rasgos de contacto en textos escritos por alumnos: una ventana a la diversidad lingüística en la escuela primaria

Abstract

This paper studies Spanish-Mapuzungun contact traits in texts written by elementary school children in the Andean region of Rio Negro Province (Argentina), seeking to contribute to the knowledge of linguistic diversity in basic education. Last year students of four schools with different socioeducational characteristics wrote individually a narrative, a description, a letter, and a set of instructions. According to a mixed methodology, contact traits were identified and categorized at the morpho-phonological, morphosyntactical and syntactical-semantical levels. Associations among features, text types and schools were analyzed (chi square test of independence and logistic regression model). Results showed that the manifestation of these traits is mostly influenced by socioeducational aspects, and punctually by textualdiscoursive aspects.