Course on mulitilingual education held by the Atxaga Chair at CUNY
2013-10-09 ¦ Events
The Bernardo Atxaga Chair of the City University of New York (CUNY) is offering its annual course this week, in collaboration with the Etxepare Institute: "Multilingual Education: Basque and International Perspectives".
The course is being held at the The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the invited professor is Jasone Cenoz of UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country).
This course will focus on the development of multilingual competence in educational contexts and its relationship to linguistic and cultural diversity in society, including the use of languages of wider communication and minority languages. The characteristics of multilingual education in the Basque Country and research on the learning of Basque, Spanish and English will be discussed as compared to other educational contexts in Europe, Asia and North America. The need to consider "Focus on Multilingualism" as a teaching and research approach that takes into account the whole linguistic repertoire will also be discussed. The course will be conducted in English.
Besides this course, The Etxepare Institute has organised several events for this week in New York City. Titled Languages in Contact, Communities in Coexistence, you can find more about that programme here.