This article aims to describe the results of a Haitian Creole language acquisition program, looking to foster intercultural communicative competence among Chilean officers, and favor migrant inclusion. The program, based on the intercultural communicative competence, had a duration of 50 hours, beginning with three sessions that present what the migration process means, the country of origin of the migrants, delivered by migrants, who then become linguistic mediators, and several linguistic aspects of Spanish and Haitian Creole languages. Data on the results of the program were collected through an interview and a language skills test, administered to the participants, to officers from the Investigation Police, and to health care practitioners, at the end of its implementation. The results show that the program favors the link between individuals from different cultural backgrounds, since it relies upon the exchange of participants having equally valued knowledge, and promotes the participation of learners in managing their learning and anticipating the context they will face. This facilitates the inclusion of migrant people, speaking a different language from that of the host society, which gives them a greater likelihood to successfully insert themselves in labor, educational and cultural settings.

La diversidad de lenguas existentes en las sociedades es un rasgo diferenciador entre culturas y un vehículo para la integración social. En Chile, la migración haitiana ha concitado el interés de la comunidad científica, especialmente en aspectos lingüísticos, donde el desconocimiento de la lengua de acogida constituye un factor de exclusión y segregación cultural y territorial. En este contexto, nos planteamos como objetivos: a) analizar los determinantes históricos contextuales de la migración haitiana, b) Describir modelos educativos de inmersión lingüística y c) proponer elementos de base para un modelo educativo de inmersión lingüística desde un enfoque comunicativo intercultural. La discusión teórica propone avanzar hacia un enfoque de reconocimiento y legitimación de las diferentes lenguas desde un enfoque universal de Derecho.

Dimensión cultural en la adquisición de segundas lenguas en contexto migratorio * Cultural dimension in the acquisition of second languages in migratory contexts