Maite Garcia Ruiz

Maite Garcia Ruiz

     Faculty of Education and Sports 

     Juan Ibáñez de Sto. Domingo 1 Street, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz

          University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

                    Telephone: +34 945 01 4167

         Email: maite.garciaru@ehu.eus  

Maite García Ruiz is a PhD Assistant Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in the Department of Language and Literature Didactics of the Álava Campus. She holds a diploma in foreign language teaching (2012) (UPV/EHU), a master's degree in English teaching (2015) (University of Idaho, UoI), and a degree in Teaching (2016) (Universidad Camilo José Cela, UCJC). In March 2023 she defended her doctoral thesis, in which she researched the multilingual Family Language Policies of Getxo families in the UPV/EHU Basque Linguistics and Philology programme under the direction of Ibon Manterola (UPV/EHU) and Ane Ortega (BAM).

Nowadays, Maite is working at the UPV/EHU teaching and researching.

As far as teaching is concerned, she has been involved in various subjects in the grades of Primary and Early Childhood Education, Practicum and End-of-grade Work (GrAL).

Regarding research, she is a member of the Elebilab Research Group and the UNESCO World Linguistic Heritage Chair (MHOUK), has participated in the Equiling Project on Critical Language Awareness and Language Agency (2020-2025) and the AMRELSE Research Project (2022-2026). The second one is aimed at investigating the use of minority languages in both the family and other relational networks.

As can be seen from Maite's teaching, PhD topic, research activity and publications, the lines of research of her interest are mainly Family Language Policy, attitudes towards minority languages, language teaching, and didactics and research in general.

 

Publications

Publications

Garcia-Ruiz, M., Manterola, I., Ortega, A. (2024). Parental ideologies in multilingual Family Language Policies in the Basque Autonomous Community. Sociolinguistic Studies Vol. 18, No. 1-2. Special Issue: Family as a language policy regime: Agency, negotiation and local practices (Guest Editors: Anik Nandi & Anastassia Zabrodskaja). 59-79.

Nandi, A.; García-Ruiz, M. & Manterola, I. (2023). Reclaiming voice through family language policies: Parental (Socio)linguistic citizenship in Castilian-Spanish-dominated multilingual settings. In Julia Gspandl; Christina Korb; Angelika Heiling and Elizabeth J. Erling (Eds.) The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 

Aldekoa, A., Garaio, B. & Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2021). Hiru txerritxoak eta beraien abenturak, otsoak beraien etxeak bota ez ditzan: hizkuntza gutxitua ardatz duen hezkuntza eleaniztuneko hiru kasu apreziatibo. In L. Diaz de Gereñu, I. Manterola & I. Garcia-Azkoaga (arg.), Euskara oinarri eta eleaniztasuna helburu. Hizkuntzen garapena eta erabilera aztergai. Bilbo: UPV/EHU. 181-198. ISBN: 978-84-1319-342-7.

Garcia-Azkoaga, I.M. & Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2020). The Basque language in education in Spain (3rd Edition). Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning.

Garcia-Ruiz, M., Manterola, I. & Ortega, A. (2019). Euskararen erabilera sustatzeko ideologia eta estrategiak D ereduko gurasoen hizkuntza politika eleaniztunetan. In O. Arbelaitz, U. Etxeberria, A. Latatu & M.J. Omaetxebarria (Eds.), III. IKERGAZTE nazioarteko ikerketa euskaraz kongresuko artikulu-bilduma. Giza zientziak eta artea (107-114). Bilbo: UEU

 

Conferences

Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2024). “I try to use some Basque words with my husband and my daughter keeps a score”: Child agency in FLP, for or against the tide?. Family Language Policy Kongresua: Reimagining the Field. Galway (online). 22-23 October.

Garcia-Ruiz, M. & Egaña, A. (2024). Política lingüística familiar: un enfoque multilingüe de las ideologías lingüísticas en la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca. IDEOLING, International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes. Mallorca. 17-19 October.                                                                     
Manterola, I., Egaña-Asensio, A. & Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2024). Componentes del valor identitario en las ideologías parentales sobre la continuidad intergeneracional del euskera en Vitoria-Gasteiz. IDEOLING, International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes. Mallorca. 17-19 October.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Garcia-Ruiz, M., Manterola, I. & Ortega, A. (2023). “Parental ideologies prioritizing Basque and their impact in Multilingual Family Language Policies”. AILA Université de Lyon, (online). Oral presentation. 17-21 July.

Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2023) “Testuinguru erdaldun baten Familia Hizkuntza Politika eleaniztunak: ikerketaren ondorioak”. “Euskal Soziolinguistikan bide berriak II” jardunaldia Equiling. Bilbo. Oral presentation. 12 July.

Garcia-Ruiz, M., Manterola, I. & Ortega, A. (2023). “Basque-centred parental language planning for the upbringing of trilingual children”. ICML Prifysgol Cymru /University of Wales. Carmarthen, Gales. Oral presentation. 21-24 June.

Kasares, P. & Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2021). “Language policies and practices in Basque-speaking families: A comparative study of the Greater Bilbao area and Pamplona”. Challenging Borders, Challenging Categorizations: From/Between Borders conference. Berna, Suitza. Poster. 11-13 November.

Garcia-Ruiz, M. (2021). “Effective family language policies and intergenerational transmission of minority languages: Experiences from Spanish-dominated indigenous and diasporic contexts”. ICML XVIII. Hizkuntza Gutxituen Nazioarteko Biltzarra. UPV/EHU NOR ikerketa taldea. Bilbo. Poster. 24-26 March.

Garcia-Ruiz, M., Manterola, I. & Ortega, A. (2019). “Voces de los padres y madres en la política lingüística familiar multilingüe”. IV Simposio internacional EDiSo (Vozes, siléncios e silenciamentos nos estudos do discurso). Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC). Santiago de Compostela. Oral presentation. 5-7 June.

Garcia-Ruiz, M., Manterola, I. & Ortega, A. (2019). “Euskararen erabilera sustatzeko ideologia eta estrategiak D ereduko gurasoen hizkuntza politika eleaniztunetan”. IKERGAZTE: Nazioarteko ikerketa euskaraz Kongresua. UEU. Baiona. Oral presentation. 27-29 June.