Conference Book - Fryske Akademy
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Title<br />
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<br />
Multilingual speakers: proficiencies, practices and identities<br />
Durk Gorter & Jasone Cenoz DATE: WED 20.06<br />
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) TIME: 18.00-18.45<br />
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT<br />
16<br />
ROOM: New York 1&2<br />
Durk Gorter is Ikerbasque research professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of the<br />
Basque Country UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. Nowadays he does research on<br />
multilingual education, European minority languages and linguistic landscapes.<br />
From 1979 to 2007 he was a researcher in the sociology of language and<br />
head of the department of social sciences at the <strong>Fryske</strong> <strong>Akademy</strong> in<br />
Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. From 1994 until 2008 he was<br />
also part-time full professor at the University of Amsterdam in the<br />
sociolinguistics of Frisian. He has been involved in sociolinguistic survey<br />
studies of the Frisian language situation and the analysis of language<br />
policy. He also did comparative work on European minority languages, in<br />
particular in education in the context of the Mercator-Education project.<br />
Among his recent publications are Focus on Multilingualism in School Contexts (2011, co-edited<br />
with Jasone Cenoz as a special issue of the Modern Language Journal) and Minority Languages in<br />
the Linguistic Landscape (2012, co-edited with Heiko Marten and Luk Van Mensel). He is the<br />
leader of DREAM, the Donostia Research Group on Education and Multilingualism.<br />
Further information on: www.ikerbasque.net/durk.gorter and http://multilingualeducation.eu/en/<br />
Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Research Methods in Education at the University<br />
of the Basque Country. Her research focuses on multilingual education,<br />
bilingualism and multilingualism combining psycholinguistic, social psychological,<br />
sociolinguistic and educational perspectives. Her most recent book is Towards<br />
Multilingual Education (Multilingual Matters, 2009) got the Spanish Association<br />
of Applied Linguistics 2010 award. She has published extensively on<br />
multilingualism and multilingual education including the special issue of the<br />
Modern Language Journal Focus on Multilingualism in School Contexts (2011,<br />
co-edited with Durk Gorter). She is the coordinator of the European Master in<br />
Multilingualism and Education (EMME) at the University of the Basque Country.<br />
She is the vice-president of the International Association of Multilingualism (IAM) and has served on<br />
the boards of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) and the International<br />
Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). She is currently working on ―Focus on