The school construction of sociolinguistic structure

Abstract

The sociolinguistic structure is made up of language, its use and development within a social and cultural environment, framed by the time-space factor. This paper aims to investigate within the Paraguayan educational system the way in which its action produces and reproduces the sociolinguistic structure. For this purpose, the paper proposes the use of a qualitative, descriptive, cross-sectional methodology. The technique employed was the in-depth interview and the instrument was a questionnaire of 13 open-ended questions. As for the population, the study considered for the study were Basic School Nº 712 San Francisco de Asís and Basic School Nº 1085 Private Subsidized Parochial School La Inmaculada, both located in the district of Eusebio Ayala, Department of Cordillera, in the year 2021, in which there were three teachers and three school principals, 12 students with their respective parents. As a finding, it was determined that, being a diglossic bilingual culture, the educational system, through the school and its agents, reproduces this structure insofar as it responds to the dominant language. As a conclusion, it is established that based on the sociolinguistic element of cultural domain, called diglossia, the educational system proposes the structure of the educational components and on its influence, the subjectivities of the subjects are constructed and reconstructed. Linguistic competences are built on the foundations of the dominant cultural capital and this guides the course of the educational system.