Mikel Zalbide
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Mikel Zalbide | |
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| Born | 9 May 1951 San Sebastián |
| Known for | Basque linguistics |
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| Alma mater | University of Navarra |
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| Discipline | linguistics |
Mikel Zalbide Elustondo (born 9 May 1951) is a Basque linguist and sociolinguist.
Zalbide was born in San Sebastián and studied engineering at the University of Navarra. From a young age, he worked in those areas where Basque needed to be developed.[clarification needed]
Terminology and lexicography
He has done extensive work in the planning of the corpus of Euskera.[clarification needed] In 1972, while still a student, he was one of the founders of Elhuyar Kultur Elkartea. In addition to creating the first technical-scientific journal in Euskera, he took part in the preparation of didactic material and launched studies on word formation.[1]
Since the creation of UZEI (Unibertsitate Zerbitzuetarako Euskal Institutua) in 1978, he has been technically responsible for the area of science and technology. He worked at UZEI, among other things, in the dictionaries of Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics.[clarification needed] He also studied the formation of lexicon and taught courses on the subject.[clarification needed]He is also the author of the systematization work[clarification needed] carried out in UZEI around the writing and pronunciation of lexical loans.[1]
Education
In 1979, Zalbide was one of the participants in the initiative to create a Basque University, a joint commission called Commission For the Planning of Basque University. He was a member of the Joint Commission created by the pre-autonomous entity Basque General Council and the University of Bilbao (later the University of the Basque Country). Within it was created a subcommittee on linguistic standardization, the working group Zalbide was responsible for.
Since 1981, he has worked in the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Government as head of the Euskera Service.[2] He retired in 2014. As head of the Basque Department of the Department of Education, he has taken part in the main projects developed by the Administration to fix the teaching of Euskera and the levels of knowledge of that language.
In the fields of pedagogy and education he has participated in the working groups for the implementation of various projects: the EIMA (Euskal Ikasmaterialgintza) program for the creation of didactic materials in Euskera (both textbooks for Primary Education and Secondary, as audiovisual material and software), and to ensure the quality of the language; the NOLEGA program and the ULIBARRI project, with the aim of reinforcing the use of Euskera in the school environment; and the Plan for Euskaldunizar, and the Educational Administration. It has also been committed to analyze the linguistic competencies of Models A, B, and D, draw conclusions and propose improvement measures.
