Beñat Garaio
Hizkuntzalaritza eta Euskal Ikasketak Saila
Letren Fakultatea
Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Telefonoa +34 655 71 94 16
E-mail: benat.garaio@ehu.eus
He is a young sociolinguist who is currently doing his PhD under the supervision of Itziar Idiazabal and Leire Diaz de Gereñu. The title of his thesis is as follows: "Identification of the successful Multilingual Basque Schools: a double case study to explore the strengths of model D schools".
His career has focused on research on the revitalization and sociolinguistics of minority languages (he has about 50 presentations and 30 scientific publications) and has focused on organizing awareness and promotion activities in these two areas (such as “HIGA: Summit of Young Speakers of Minoritized Languages”, “Hitz Adina Mintzo” and “EuskarAbentura”).
He has won the Young Researchers Contest of the Sancho el Sabio Foundation and the best poster presentation at the IkerGazte 2 Humanities Congress, among others. During the 2014-2015 academic year, he earned an honors degree in the MA Language Support and Revitalization master from SOAS University in London.
As for teaching, in recent years he has taught classes in the “Expert Title in Strategies to Revitalize Languages” organized by Garabide Elkartea and in the “HIZNET Linguistic Planning” postgraduate course at the UPV/EHU.