Presentation of the Chair, with Federico Mayor Zaragoza. Source: Tendencias 21 TV.
The TECLIN Chair of the UNESCO, inaugurated two weeks ago in Madrid, has counted on the collaboration of professors of different universities of all the world.
Among them, informs Tendencias21 TV, we can find Arturo Fernández, pro-rector of the Catholic University of Temuco in Chile, who pronounce himself forcefully about the danger that this Chair aims to battle: “When the world loose a language, the whole humanity suffers a tremendous deterioration, an enormous loose, because a unique and exclusive way of conceiving the world is lost, as well as a way of feeling and expressing the world through a language.”
Nelson Piedra, from the Particular Technic University of Loja (Ecuador), talks about the benefits of protecting a language, because these are always “associated to knowledge”.
“Our main challenge is to train teachers, who will be those transmitting the language to lower levels”, says Víctor Robles, director of the Computer Engineer School, who emphasises along with the professor Jesús Cardeñosa the importance of the technological infrastructure of this project.
The attendants highlighted the importance of approaching the teaching of languages to students using more interactive and diverse methods.
This Chair is the last of a long list that includes “more than 5,000 in different countries of the world”, explains Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former general director of the UNESCO.
The signing of the Chair put an end to a work that began seven years ago, when Jesús Cardeñosa started to work on this project, and where the contacts of the net “Sur-Sur” are highlighted among Latin American universities. "There is a concrete need in these communities, and the Chair has an objective”, states Roberto Giordano Lerena, dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of FASTA (Argentina).
The objective of TECLIN is to give the communities with which the Chair will work the chance to make themselves heard, according to the words of Federico Mayor Zaragoza.
Among them, informs Tendencias21 TV, we can find Arturo Fernández, pro-rector of the Catholic University of Temuco in Chile, who pronounce himself forcefully about the danger that this Chair aims to battle: “When the world loose a language, the whole humanity suffers a tremendous deterioration, an enormous loose, because a unique and exclusive way of conceiving the world is lost, as well as a way of feeling and expressing the world through a language.”
Nelson Piedra, from the Particular Technic University of Loja (Ecuador), talks about the benefits of protecting a language, because these are always “associated to knowledge”.
“Our main challenge is to train teachers, who will be those transmitting the language to lower levels”, says Víctor Robles, director of the Computer Engineer School, who emphasises along with the professor Jesús Cardeñosa the importance of the technological infrastructure of this project.
The attendants highlighted the importance of approaching the teaching of languages to students using more interactive and diverse methods.
This Chair is the last of a long list that includes “more than 5,000 in different countries of the world”, explains Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former general director of the UNESCO.
The signing of the Chair put an end to a work that began seven years ago, when Jesús Cardeñosa started to work on this project, and where the contacts of the net “Sur-Sur” are highlighted among Latin American universities. "There is a concrete need in these communities, and the Chair has an objective”, states Roberto Giordano Lerena, dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of FASTA (Argentina).
The objective of TECLIN is to give the communities with which the Chair will work the chance to make themselves heard, according to the words of Federico Mayor Zaragoza.
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