Basque in Spain
IES Elorrio BHI
Kurtzebarri BHI
Zubi Zahar Ikastola
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| Contact person | Zorione Fundazuri |
| Website | www.elorrioinstitutua.org |
| Total number of teachers | 29 |
| Total number of pupils | 173 |
| Languages of instruction | Basque, Spanish, English, French |
| Teaching material | The quality and availability of Basque teaching material is good. |
| Remarks | The main problem with the Basque language is the use of Basque outside of the school. |
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| Contact person | Ibone Amorrortu |
| Website | www.goieskola.net/kurtzebarribhi |
| Total number of teachers | 26 |
| Total number of pupils | 144 |
| Languages of instruction | Basque, Spanish, English, French |
| Teaching material | The quality and availability of Basque teaching material is reasonable. |
| Remarks | Although Basque is compulsory for our students , their level of proficiency in this language is not very good on average. Besides, they tend to use the minority language only for academic purposes and use Spanish for informal communication. We have just started a project called "Minority Languages in Europe" and are exchanging letters with an Italian school in Croatia, a Sardinian school and a Kurdish one. |
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| Contact person | Idoia Barinaga or Tere Larreina |
| Website | http://www.zubizahar.net |
| Total number of teachers | 26 |
| Total number of pupils | 310 |
| Languages of instruction | Basque, Spanish |
| Teaching material | The availability and quality of teaching material is good. |
| Remarks | Although Basque is a minority language our school is located in an area where 90% of the population are native speakers of Basque. There is influence of Spanish but it is not so great as to present a problem. Most pupils come from Basque speaking families. However, in our area most families speak a dialect of Basque and we teach the standard Basque which is what institutions accept as official. This, sometimes is a problem for students and parents. |
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