Beyond Additive Trilingualism: Digital Equity and Translanguaging Pedagogies for English as a Third Language in Indigenous Communities of Latin America
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https://doi.org/10.65415/j71p6t87Palabras clave:
educación indígena; inglés como tercera lengua; equidad digital; translanguaging; justicia lingüística.Resumen
La expansión del inglés en América Latina suele presentarse como una estrategia de movilidad educativa y económica, pero en comunidades indígenas puede superponerse a desigualdades lingüísticas y digitales preexistentes. Este artículo analiza bajo qué condiciones la tecnología puede apoyar el aprendizaje del inglés como tercera lengua sin debilitar las lenguas originarias ni ampliar brechas de acceso. Mediante una revisión integrativa crítica y un análisis comparativo de evidencia regional, se articulan estudios sobre educación intercultural bilingüe, translanguaging, formación docente, revitalización lingüística y educación digital, junto con casos de Uruguay, Chile, México, Perú y la Amazonía colombiana. Los resultados muestran una paradoja: la conectividad puede compensar la escasez de docentes y ampliar la exposición al inglés, pero su efecto depende de alfabetización sólida en la lengua indígena y el español, contenidos culturalmente situados, docentes capaces de gestionar repertorios multilingües y gobernanza comunitaria de los recursos digitales. Se propone el Modelo de Ecosistema Trilingüe Digitalmente Justo, que integra seis condiciones: continuidad de L1, fortalecimiento de L2, inglés como L3, infraestructura resiliente, mediación docente y soberanía lingüístico-digital. Se concluye que digitalizar sin estas garantías puede modernizar la desigualdad; con ellas, la tecnología puede convertirse en infraestructura para una justicia multilingüe sostenible en la región.
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