Interculturality in Mexican sign language as a mother tongue and the acquisition of a second language by deaf people

Abstract

Sign language is recognized as a linguistic heritage of our country and has become a new research field for linguistics, because the Mexican signs language (MSL) has the capacity to form vocabulary and is shared among members of the same group: deaf people. However, the right of deaf people to practice sign language as a mother language can become a challenge for many reasons, such as being the children of hearing parents who seek the medical and rehabilitation option for they develop and learn to listen and therefore to speak, read and write, without knowing that through the teaching of MSL as a mother language deaf children can access to Spanish reading and writing as a second language. From this educational principle we attend the inclusion and diversity of a group that learns through the use of the intercultural bilingual model to generate environments of inclusion, respect and diversity, reaching the structure of an open school where cultures coexist and learn throughout the interculturality of the language, and that this has an effect on the policies, practices and cultures.