Tolosa: gazteen ahozkotasunaren laborategi (I) ("Gazteen aisialdia eta euskara" Jagon jardunaldia)

Abstract

The latest research project recently launched by the Mintzola Foundation in 2010 was the consequence of a reflection made on Basque and its use by Tolosa town council. As the main aims of the Mintzola Foundation are research into orality and the publicizing of it, it has presented a four-year research project and started working in all the schools in Tolosa. It sets out to study the language attitudes and behavior, frequency of use and competences of young people in Statutory Secondary Education, in order to intervene in them and seek the main keys for working on orality in schools and among young people. The research which we wanted to turn into a dynamic laboratory has been set up with the aim of encouraging young people to speak more Basque and more appropriately in Basque. It is based on action research: it brings together research and activity, it encourages the players to reflect and make changes. Even though the laboratory is located in Tolosa, the results of this experience and the experiences themselves are expected to be useful for other organizations, towns or schools having similar aims, so that they can implement them. In fact, with the results emerging in the wake of this research, the aim is to make proposals on the best practices for working on orality in schools (in Statutory Secondary Education) not only in Tolosa, but also so that these practices can be applied to other areas as well. Keywords: orality, young people, applied research, intervention, Statutory Secondary Education.