This week’s blog post comes from Dr. Steve Peters, a Faculty Lecturer at McGill University with the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education and one of BILD’s newest members.
language revitalization
Language revitalisation from the ground up in Mexico (by Dr. Josep Cru)
Josep Cru holds a BA in Linguistics from the University of Barcelona and an MA in Language, Literacy and Culture from the University of California at Berkeley. From 2001 to 2007, he worked for Linguapax, an international NGO based in Barcelona which promotes language diversity worldwide. Since 2007, he has taught Spanish, Catalan and Sociolinguistics at Newcastle University in the UK. In 2013, he finished a PhD thesis on language ideologies and revitalization in Yucatan, Mexico. His publications can be found here and his profile, here. Continue reading
