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The Observatory of Spanish in Europe is a research center founded in 2023 at Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS), Heidelberg University. Its main goal is to offer data that can help tackle the emerging trends related to Spanish and its speakers in Europe.
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New publication: Understanding the Spanish Language in Europe: Current Migration and Educational Trends
The Observatory of Spanish in Europe is pleased to announce the publication of Understanding the Spanish Language in Europe: Current Migration and Educational Trends, edited by Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda Lamas, Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Gutiérrez Palacios, Prof. Dr. José Luis García Delgado, and Dr. Pilar Valero Fernández, and published by De Gruyter Brill.
The volume offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the presence and development of Spanish in Europe. Exploring topics such as demolinguistics, migration, education, intergenerational transmission, language policies, translation, and digital communication, it examines the factors shaping the future of Spanish beyond traditionally Spanish-speaking countries.
Find out more about the publication here.
Prof. Dr Óscar Loureda Lamas featured in En primera persona: conversaciones con lingüistas en torno al lenguaje
En primera persona: conversaciones con lingüistas en torno al lenguaje. Segundo Sexenio de Zaragoza Lingüística, a volume edited by Andrea Ariño-Bizarro, Natalia López-Cortés and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, has been published, bringing together twenty interviews with specialists in linguistics.
Prof. Dr Óscar Loureda Lamas is featured in interview 8, entitled “Conversaciones en torno a la pragmática experimental”, conducted by Katia Benaiges Saura of the Psylex research group at the University of Zaragoza.
The interview explores the role of discourse particles, such as bueno, es decir and además, and how experimental pragmatics can investigate the cognitive processes involved in discourse comprehension.
Read the full interview here.
New publication: La política de lenguas extranjeras en Ucrania ante la integración europea: la posición del español
The paper “La política de lenguas extranjeras en Ucrania ante la integración europea: la posición del español”, by Mariam-Sofiia Shamsutdynova, has been published in the Working Papers series of the Observatory of Spanish in Europe.
The article examines the position of Spanish within Ukraine’s language and education policy amid European integration and institutional efforts to promote foreign language learning. Drawing on legislative measures, education system data, and survey results, it explores the growing prominence of English, changes in Spanish language enrolment, and the challenges facing the promotion of other European languages.
Read the full paper here.
Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda delivers a seminar El español como lengua de herencia en Europa
On Friday, 9 October, Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda, Director of the Observatory of Spanish in Europe (OSE), gave a seminar “El español como lengua de herencia en Europa” as part of the Master’s programme La enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera at the University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain.
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