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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 />

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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

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