VOX Gibraltar News – Bilingual Study Research Visit, University of Valladolid

The crew from the College of Valladolid Language Acquisition Lab (UVALAL), which is learning English-Spanish bilingualism, have had a productive and fascinating week conducting analysis in Gibraltar.

The bilingual language examine occurred on the John Waterproof coat Corridor the place the UVALAL crew members Raquel Fernández Fuertes (PI), Esther Álvarez de la Fuente, Sonja Mujcinovic, Tamara Gómez Carrero and Eduardo Gómez Garzarán have been recording the language responses of round 30 members from a large age vary. The information collected will now be analysed and studied to discover the kind of language alternation that Gibraltarians use between English and Spanish (i.e., code-switching). That is the second analysis go to by the crew who’re eager to discover the nuances of the bilingual language utilized by Gibraltarians, particularly the code-switching which is prevalent in bilingual audio system. The UVALAL makes use of linguistic concept, in addition to spontaneous and experimental information, to account for various linguistic phenomena which might be associated to language contact conditions, such because the one in Gibraltar.

On this event a public lecture was delivered by Raquel Fernández Fuertes on ‘Bilingualism from the skin and from the within’, which generated curiosity, with representatives additionally that includes on GBC’s Metropolis Pulse programme the place they mentioned their work additional. The UVALAL crew is led by Raquel Fernández Fuertes who says that bilingualism will not be a one-person effort, however slightly a posh and engaging course of that requires collaboration from people, researchers, educators, politicians, and society, as all of us share the identical final pursuits and objectives in the case of bilingualism.

Minister for Tradition, John Cortes, mentioned: “As we work in direction of preserving our multi-lingual neighborhood, I’m more than happy that Gibraltar has attracted the curiosity of those worldwide researchers. A better understanding of how our languages work collectively will assist cement our uniqueness and encourage us to proceed to grasp the numerous advantages of multi-lingualism”.

The go to was supported by Gibraltar Cultural Companies on behalf of the Ministry for Tradition and by the College of Gibraltar.