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BEÑAT MUGURUZA ASEGUINOLAZA
- Knowledge area
- Basque Philology
- Department
- Basque Language and Communication
- Centre
- Faculty of Engineering - Bilbao
- Electronic mail
- benat.muguruza@ehu.eus
I studied English Studies and a master degree about language acquisition at the University of the Basque Country. Immediately after that I started with my PhD. My doctoral dissertation focused on the role played by English as a third language in a university that was already bilingual with Basque and Spanish. I stayed at a Gaelic-medium university in the Isle of Skye (Scotland) to observe other European settings in which a minority language is used as a medium of instruction. I got my international PhD degree in 2014. After that, I had different jobs always related to language and education: I was a lecturer at the teacher training degree in Mondragon University, I worked as a "Basque technician" in a region of Navarre, I was a lecturer at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), and taught Basque Language and Culture in Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris) thanks to the Etxepare Institute. Since September 2017 I have been a lecturer and researcher at the UPV/EHU, in the Department of Basque Language and Communication. I started to do research on the Basque informal form of address hika together with my colleage Garbiñe Bereziartua. In 2018 we collected a big amount of data and analysed it. Now we are publishing all the findings in research journals, book chapters, and also presenting the results in different international conferences. I recently obtained the assistant professor accreditation from Unibasq and hope to get the post where I have been working for the last three y