Abstract

BRUNO LOPEZ, Mercy; VIVANCO ALVAREZ, Rafael  and  PEREZ ALBELA STUART, Ruperto. Kushikuy, Design of Educational Cards for the Teaching-learning of Basic Words in Quechua. Zincografía [online]. 2023, vol.7, n.13, pp.5-23.  Epub Aug 04, 2023. ISSN 2448-8437.  https://doi.org/10.32870/zcr.v7i13.178.

Peru is a multicultural country in which various languages ​​and dialects are spoken. The present investigation analyzes the danger of extinction of an original language, Central Quechua, due to the lack of transmission of migrants in the city of Metropolitan Lima to their children from six to ten years of age. The problem is evident when the Quechua-speaking migrant father decides not to use his mother tongue in the process of raising the children due to shame, discrimination, racism, among other causes, causing them to lose oral traditions and creating a certain difficulty in communication. intergenerational with part of the family, as well as a loss of the sense of belonging with their roots.

Against this background, Kushikuy was born, educational cards for the teaching-learning of basic words in Central Quechua, an educational and fun tool that contributes to learning the language through the gradual acquisition of words. The design of this material allows to identify elements of the Andean social and cultural reality that are typical of the sociocultural context of the Central Andes, avoiding the loss of the use of the mother tongue in native Quechua-speaking families and, in addition, constituting a learning instrument for the people who want their children to learn a second language.

Keywords : Graphic design; flash cards; Quechua; language loss.

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