Teaching staff
MIREN ELIZABET AROCENA EGAÑA
- Knowledge area
- Teaching of Language and Literature
- Department
- Lenguage and Literature Didactics
- Centre
- Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology
- Electronic mail
- mirenelizabet.arocena@ehu.eus
With broad experience in teaching languages in different countries, such as the USA, Elizabet is specialized in language teaching in multilingual contexts. She is currently a teacher at the Department of Language and Literature Didactics in the Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology and in the European Master in Multilingualism and Education (EMME) master of the University of the Basque Country. As member of the DREAM (Donostia Research on Education and Multilingualism) research group at the University of the Basque Country since 2010, Elizabet has worked in various research projects in the field of multilingualism in education. She has participated in international conferences and has published with others the article Teachers’ beliefs in multilingual education in the Basque Country and in Friesland (2015) as well as the article “Euskararen eta gaztelaniaren erabilera ingeleseko irakaskuntza-saioetan” (2018). Elizabet has also published various books with others in the field of language education in multilingual contexts where one of the languages is a minority language in society. She completed her PhD research on Multilingual Education: Teachers’ Beliefs and Language Use in the Classroom. She is also instructor in in-service training for language teachers in Primary and Secondary education.