Dr Josep Cru Talaveron
Teacher
- Email: josep.cru@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: http://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/josep.cru/
- Address: School of Modern Languages
Old Library Building
NE1 7RU Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
Introduction
With the support of the Institute Ramon Llull, I have been teaching Catalan at Newcastle University and Durham University since the academic year 2007-2008. Rosaleen Howard from the School of Modern Languages and Peter Sercombe from the Scool of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle are the supervisors of an ongoing PhD thesis on language revitalisation in Yucatan, Mexico. I am also the Secretary of Linguapax, an international organisation based in Barcelona which promotes language diversity worldwide. More information at: www.linguapax.org
Background
Language, Literacy and Culture MA University of California, Berkeley 1999
Linguistics BA University of Barcelona 1996
Anglo-German Philology BA University of Barcelona 1993
Research Interests
Sociolinguistics, language ideologies, language policy and planning, indigenous languages of Latin America.
Undergraduate Teaching
Introduction to Catalan SPA 2021