Prof. Jasone Cenoz
Jasone Cenoz serves on the Advisory Council of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), the board of the Basque Institute for Educational Evaluation and Research, and the ISEAK Foundation. Until recently, she was the Professor of Education at the University of the Basque Country. Her research focuses on multilingual education, bilingualism, multilingualism, and minority languages. Cenoz has published a large number of articles and books such as A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies (2024), The Minority Language as a Second language (2024) and Pedagogical Translanguaging (2021), all in collaboration with Durk Gorter.
Prof. Jim Cummins
Jim Cummins is a Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His research focuses on literacy development in educational contexts characterized by linguistic diversity and has been influential in establishing the theoretical foundation underlying bilingual education for minoritised students. His work has explored the intersections of societal power relations, teacher-student identity negotiation, and literacy attainment in multilingual classrooms. The practical instructional implications of this perspective are that teachers of multilingual and minoritised students (from preschool through the end of compulsory schooling) should focus on creating an affirmative ecology that recognises and promotes the complementary roles of developing students’ awareness of how languages work and influence our lives together with motivating students to engage actively with literacy involving all the languages in their cognitive repertoire. His most recent book entitled Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts was published by Multilingual Matters in August 2021.
Prof. Joana Da Silveira Duarte
Joana Duarte is Professor of Educational Sciences at the University of Groningen.
Prof. Durk Gorter
Durk Gorter is the retired Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country. He carries out research on European minority languages, multilingual education, and linguistic landscapes. Recent publications are A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies (2024), Pedagogical Translanguaging (2021) and The Minority Language as a Second language (2024) all co-edited with Jasone Cenoz. Moreover, Gorter has also edited three books on linguistic landscapes. In 2018, Gorter received the award of Distinguished Scholar of Multilingualism from the International Association of Multilingualism.
Dr Myrte Gosen
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Dr Diana Lindsay
Diana Lindsay is a teacher, teacher trainer, and materials writer. She has lived and worked in Africa, the UK, Italy, China, and Qatar. Since 1988 she has been working in the Basque Country with the British Council, the Basque Government, the University of the Basque Country, the University of Deusto, HUHEZI, and the Federation of Ikastolas. Lindsay has written over twenty stories for young learners and co-authored story-based, project-based and CLIL-based materials for primary and secondary school. Her current interests include integrated multilingual school language planning, mapping teacher competences, and the use of stories in early language learning.
Prof. Roel van Steensel
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