The Eusle Methodology is of Interest in Wales

Last month, Bangor University Research Student Arwel Tomos Williams made a flying visit to Lemoa Town Council where  he met up with Gorka Barrenetxea, a technician on the Aldahitz project, along with five staff members who were participants on the project. Arwel’s interest is in behavioural psychology and aims to complete his thesis on
increasing the use of Welsh in the bilingual workplace.

Arwel, along with his supervisors, are keen to implement something similar to the Eusle methodology (the Aldahitz project) at Bangor University to see if linguistic habits in the bilingual workplace can change, increasing the use of Welsh among staff. After Arwel and his supervisors learned about the foundations of the methodology, Arwel visited the offices of Soziolinguistika Klusterra in Andoain to have lengthy discussion with the researchers to gain a deeper understanding of the theoretical and practical underpinnings behind the project.

Arwel also met with some of the individuals that took part in the project at Lemoa Town Council to get more information on how to implement it and how it works, as well as to gather some qualitative feedback from the participants themselves. For this meeting, Patxi Martinez was kind enough to offer his interpreting skills to help the Basque-English communication between Arwel and the participants.

Publication date: 17 February 2017