Bilingual Education; Literacy And Language Planning In Education

Throughout our lives we will never cease to learn because every day we learn something new. In our country it is written by the law that every single person has the right to go to school for free asit is stated on The Mexican Constitution in the 3rd article.
Public school will provide some sort of literacy in a different set of levels. This will provide children enough skillsto continue their education until they graduate which will help them function in society. Nowadays to be an illiterate; defined as a person unable to complete many reading and numeracy tasks thatadults commonly face in everyday life (Southam news 1987), means that your chances to make it through life will be significantly narrowed. This is because in most of the job applications you must gothrough an interview or show papers that demonstrate that you have enough skills to perform as you are expected to in that job. The minimum wage for simple tasks that are reachable for people who would beconsidered an illiterate person is about $60 (1) The literacy that public schools provide is not enough to reach the desirable goal that is economic improvement by itself. One needs to keep on studyingand developing more skills needed in society such as learning English or another language or to master computer skills and programs.
Literacy is an important factor needed insociety; This literacy may be achieved through the mother tongue or in the language of wider communication which possesses a written culture and economic power (Crandall, 1992; McKay, 1993). In Mexico, inthe case of ethnic groups, these people that mostly speak dialects will learn in Spanish at school and will keep their dialect at home but will use Spanish when interacting with non-ethnic people or intowns or cities where Spanish Is spoken by a majority of people (2) In a literate society social practices are also acquired in a foreign language which will be the mean to achieve a desired goal....