"Carlos J. Finlay" award to outstanding Basque professor
On Thursday, February 16, 2023 at the Congress Palace of Havana was awared with the Order "Carlos J. Finlay" the outstanding professor and researcher from the Natural Language Processing Group, IXA, from the University of the Basque Country, Dr. Xabier Artola Zubillaga. Read more
18th International Symposium on Social Communication held in Santiago de Cuba
From January 23-27, 2023 the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA) hosted the 18th International Symposium on Social Communication at the emblematic Heredia Cultural Center in the heroic city of Santiago de Cuba under the auspice of the Provincial Chapter of the Cuban National Union of Writers and Artists, the University of Oriente, and other higher education institutions from Spain, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Chile and Germany. Read more
A Conference for Sharing and Learning
The rebellious and heroic city of Santiago de Cuba welcomes biennially national and international social scientists, linguists and journalists, who are summoned to attend the International Symposium on Social Communication. For over three decades, the Symposium has become the right setting for scientific exchanges. This year, the 18th edition was convened for January 24 to 27. Read more
Three Plenary Keynote Speeches Delivered at the 18th International Symposium on Social Communication
Last January, the Center for Applied Linguistics, attached to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment's Agency of Social and Humanistic Sciences, hosted the 18th International Symposium on Social Communication, which was dedicated to the 95th birthday of its initiators Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernández and Eloina Miyares Bermudez. Attended by Cuban and international participants, the gathering opened a space for debate and dialogue among seasoned experts. Read more
Five year without Eloína
The Legacy of a Couple of Teachers
On April 15, 2019, Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernández, PhD, passed away. He was an outstanding linguist, one of the pioneers of acoustic and experimental phonetics studies in Cuba, the author of novel nationally popular spelling books and the founder of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA, Spanish acronym) of Santiago de Cuba. With his death, the physical existence of a scientific dyad that made great contributions to Cuban linguistics and pedagogy came to an end, because, along with his wife, Eloína Miyares Bermúdez, also a linguist, he elaborated part of his vast work. Read more
Cuban Center for Applied Linguistics holds Science and Technology Forum
The Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA, Spanish acronym) based in Santiago de Cuba held the intramural Science and Technology Forum on September 23, 2020, with all staff attending. Read moreTribute paid to Eloína Miyares Bermúdez and Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernández, in the commemoration of the 103rd anniversary of the founding of the Normal School of Oriente
On October 9, 2019, with the participation of normal-school teachers, authorities of the Ministry of Education, the Cuban Communist Party and the Government in the province of Santiago de Cuba, workers of the Center for Applied Linguistics, students and teachers of the “Floro Pérez” Pedagogical School, based in the former Normal School of Oriente, the 103rd anniversary of its foundation was celebrated. Read more
Our Founder Vitelio
Sixteenth International Symposium on Social Communication held in Santiago de Cuba
The Sixteenth International Symposium on Social Communication, sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics, was held from January 21 to 25 this year, with the participation of 135 Cuban experts and 93 foreign experts from 20 countries.
Two pre-symposium courses were taught by Prof. Philippe Humblé, from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium and Prof. Mikel Iruskieta, from the University of the Basque Country. Read more
A Memory and Tribute Book about Eloina Miyares Bermúdez is presented on the Cuban National Science Day
In the morning hours of January 15th, 2018, the book entitled Lexicology and Lexicography Studies. A tribute to Eloina Miyares Bermúdez, was presented at the Heredia Cultural Center, in the presence of Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, the First Deputy Minister, PhD. Fernándo González Bermúdez, the representative of the territorial office of the CITMA (Spanish acronym for Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment) in Santiago de Cuba, Zelma Corona Ochoa, MSc. and other national and territorial executives. Read more
CITMA First Deputy Minister pays tribute to the founder of the Center for Applied Linguistics
Within the context of the celebration of Cuba´s National Science Day in Santiago de Cuba, Sunday, January 14th, 2018, important personsattending the event, visited the heritage cemetery of this city to pay tribute to the Founding Fathers of the Cuban Revolution.
Afterwards, the guests took part in the tour through the history of deceased outstanding scientists from Santiago and whose mortal remains are laid to rest in this graveyard. One of the mausoleums visited, was that of the Ruiz Miyares family; where CITMA First Deputy Minister, PhD. Fernando González Bermúdez paid posthumous tribute to Eloina Miyares Bermúdez, PhD, founder of the CLA. Read more
CLA holds Comprehensive Spelling Contest and Basic School Dictionary Marathon tomark the Language Day
The staff of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA) celebrated on April 25, as usual, theSpanish Language Day at the Abel Santamaría Cuadrado boarding school, in El Caney. Seventh and ninth gradestudents participated in the celebrations and showed their mastery of the Spanish language. The seventh graders competed in spelling. Read more
CLA staff donates blood on the occasion of May Day
In response to the call of the Provincial Union of Science Workers to get involved in anaction plan to observe May Day, the trade union branch of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA) embarked on a massive blood donation drive. This initiative proved to be fruitfulanda number ofunion members from CLA gathered on April 27 at the Blood Bank of our city to donate the precious fluid and contribute to saving human lives. These donations took place after another onemade recently by employee Yoandrys Cruz Pantoja, for a total of six. Journalists from the Cuban News Agency interviewed donors Rolando Urrutia Cleger, Angel Maqueira Arocha, Javier Tamayo Lozada and Alex Muñoz Alvarado, protagonists of this humane gesture. Read more
Young CLA staff members climb Pico Turquino to mark the 55th anniversary of the Young Communist League
Young staff members Rolando Urrutia Cleger and Javier Tamayo Lozada from the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA), along with other young employees from various research centers and the Territorial Divisionof CITMA (Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment)climbedthe Pico Turquino on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Young Communist League. The fruitful day began with the ascent to the highest elevation of Cuba at 4:00 a.m. The more agile hikers reached the toparound 11:00 a.m. This activity brought them closerto the history of our country and posedan opportunity to pay tribute to our heroes and martyrs, National Hero José Martí and Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz. (April 18, 2017)
CLA congratulates founder and researcher Dr. Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernández on his 89th birthday
The staff of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA)gathered on April 28 at the house of the founder of this institution and researcher Dr. Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernández to congratulate him on his 89th birthday. Vitelio, as his colleagues affectionately call him, devoted his entire life and professional career together with his wife, Dr. Eloína Miyares Bermúdez, to studying the Spanish language, and made significant contributions to Linguistics in the fields of Phonetics, Lexicology, Lexicography and Spelling. After his son Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares expressed congratulations, Vitelioreceived a beautiful bouquet of flowers on behalf of the staff of the Center for Applied Linguistics, as a token of eternal gratitude for his valuable scientific work. On April 27 and May 11, the Canal Educativo will pay homage to Dr. Eloína Miyares Bermúdez and Dr. Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernández, respectively,on the TV program ‘Presence’. (April 28, 2017)Young CLAstaff members participate in scientific exhibition on April 4
Young staff members from the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA) participated in an exhibition organized by the Territorial Divisionof CITMA (Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment) at the headquarters of MEGACEN (Information and Technology Management Center) to observe the anniversary of the Young Communist League on April 4. In the exhibition, Engineer Javier Tamayo Lozada and computer technician Rolando Urrutia Cleger launched the Diccionario Auditivo para Invidentes(Audio Dictionary for Visually Impaired Persons), an important achievement of our institution that is being spread throughout the province and obtained good results in the Science and Technology Symposium in theprovince. It is a praiseworthy work done by the young CLA staff members and other workers to put into practice the results of scientific researchandmark the 55th anniversary of the Young Communist League. (April 4, 2017)Union member María Rosa Álvarez Silva is awarded the Juan Tomás Roig Medal
On May Day, International Workers'Day, the Cuban Workers' Confederation and the Provincial Science Workers’ Union awarded CLA specialist María Rosa Álvarez Silva the Juan Tomás Roigmedalafter20 years of hard work during which she was a union leader and an outstanding worker. The awarding ceremony took place at the Stained Glass Hall, in the Major General Antonio Maceo GrajalesRevolution Square. Lázaro Expósito Canto,first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in the province of Santiago de Cuba, as well as some union leaders attended the ceremony. (April 27, 2017)CLA commemorates the 50th anniversary of the fall in combat of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
The CLA (Center for Applied Linguistics) staff led by UJC (Young Communist League) membersconducted a panel discussion dedicated to significant moments of the relationship between Che and Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz. The panel discussion is includedin the plan of activities on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the fall of Che and the celebration of the 55th anniversary of UJC. (April 4, 2017)Massive participation of CLA staff on May Day parade
On May Day, the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA)staffgathered at the Antonio Maceo Grajales Revolution Square in the city of Santiago de Cuba to reaffirm their unconditional supportfor the Revolution, the Communist Party of Cuba, Fidel and Raúl. The staff members carried Cuban flags, the National Outstanding Centerflag and posters featuring messages on May Day. In this colorful atmosphere, the CLA staff members were enthusiastic and joyful for they reached this significant date after having met their goals at work. Five staff members had also donated blood on previous days to mark the International Workers'Day. The five German students who are takinga Spanish Language and Cuban Culture coursejoined the CLA staff inthe parade to show their support for our Revolution and its work. Read more
Spanish Language and Cuban Culture Course 2017 Started
A new round of the Spanish Language and Cuban Culture Course started on March 6, 2017 and will last until June. This course is held annually at the Center for Applied Linguistics of Santiago de Cuba. Five students from the University of Würsburg, Germany have enrolled for the course this year. The occasion will be fruitful for practicing and validating the new course on the teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE, Spanish acronym), designed on a task-based approach resulting from one of the research projects developed at the Center and completed in 2016. Apart from improving their knowledge of the Spanish language, students will be able to have a broad outlook of the Cuban culture, included history, art, music, etc. Visits to museums and other places of historical and cultural interest in Santiago de Cuba will also be part of the program.CLA researchers held a new scientific session
CLA researchers and technicians met on March 28 to discuss topics covered by the book El dardo en la Academia by composite authors. On-the-job trainees Yamil Leyva and Rosmery Cernadas commented on the good and bad decisions related to the work traditionally developed by the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language. Information technician Rolando Urrutia Cleger, a member of the CLA Group for Computational Linguistics, referred to the plan for updating the Web site of the Center for Applied Linguistics. Participants in the meeting highlighted the importance of this plan, as it reflects the scientific and social work of this center in a nicer and modern way.An encounter with history
Employees of the Center for Applied Linguistics and their relatives visited Fidel´s house in Birán, in the province of Holguín as well as the Mangos de Baraguá Monument, located near Santiago de Cuba. It was an excellent occasion to pay homage to two outstanding figures of our history: Fidel Castro Ruz and Antonio Maceo Grajales who, in spite of belonging to two different periods, they were both characterized by their revolutionary principles and devotion to the homeland. Foreign students attending the Spanish Language and Cuban Culture Course were invited to the visit, which gave them the opportunity to be aware of relevant features of these two great heroes and of the history of Cuba in general. Read more
Electronic version of the Diccionario Escolar Ilustrador (Illustrated School Dictionary)
15th International Symposium of Social Communication, Eloína Miyares Bermúdez in Memoriam, of the 23 at January 27 the 2017
Electronic version of the Diccionario Básico Escolar (Basic School Dictionary)
Our beloved Dra. Eloína Miyares Bermudez, founder of the Center of Applied Linguistics, passed away on July 26, 2015, in Santiago de Cuba, her native city. Dr Miyares Bermudez, Heroine of Labor of the Republic of Cuba, was the creator and director of important projects of great national impact, among which feature: the Active-Functional Lexicon of the Cuban Student, the Illustrated School Dictionary, Methodology for the treatment of articulatory problems for primary and basic secondary schools, and the Basic School Dictionary. Dr Miyares Bermúdez will live on forever in our hearts.
Center for Applied Linguistics, sponsoring institution of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba
Dr. Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez, a founding director of the Center for Applied Linguistics and Academic of Merit, received from the President of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba (ACC), Dr. Ismael Clark Arxer, a diploma attesting to our Center for Applied Linguistics as a sponsoring institution of the ASC.
Becoming eligible for this stimulus is a serious commitment, recognizing the prestige of our center and we are committed to work jointly with the ACC toward common goals for the development of Cuban science. Read more
Completion of a project on the intonation of the people from Santiago de Cuba carried out by the Center for Applied Linguistics
After seven years of implementation (2005-2012), the science and technique project named “Intonation in the speech of the educated population of Santiago de Cuba”, ended on May 2012 after the satisfactory fulfillment of its objectives. The project was carried out by a team of researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics led by B.A. Alex Muñoz Alvarado. Read more
Nancy Álamo Suárez B.A., researcher of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA), retires
After 37 successful years of work (28 at the CLA) devoted to teaching and linguistic research, Nancy Álamo Suárez B.A. has decided to retire. She was always considered by her colleagues as an endless and model worker.
At her farewell party, on April 30, together with her family and friends, she was complimented for her achievements in her professional career, her merits in the formation of new generations, and her commitment as a political leader. Visibly touched by the signs of affection, the researcher expressed her decision to keep supporting the work of the institution that helped her develop high scientific and spiritual values. Read more
Dictionary Marathon Contest on its Second Edition
The second edition of the Dictionary Marathon Contest organized by the Center for Applied Linguistics was celebrated at the “Abel Santamaría Cuadrado” semi boarding school during Spanish Language Day.
The main objective of the competition is to test the student’s skills to look for words in the dictionary. Students from 30 junior high schools of the municipality of Santiago de Cuba participated in the activity and the six best times were selected using a digital chronometer. Authorities of the Ministry of Education in the municipality and the province were present. Results obtain were very positive and stimulated more ambitious efforts for this practice next year. Read more
The Center for Applied Linguistics organized on April 23, 2012 a Spelling and Culture Enhancement Session to celebrate Spanish Language Day at the Abel Santamaría Cuadrado semi boarding school. One of the main activities was the Spelling Contest carried out every year on this date and led by Dr. Eloína Miyares and Dr. Vitelio Ruiz. Other activities included the recording of new emissions of the Saber Andar radio program, written by the previously mentioned professionals and broadcast by local stations. This time the program included a group of cultural expressions written by students who showed their knowledge of the countries of Our Americas, specially those parts of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). Read more
Director of the Center for Applied Linguistics gives a lecture in Vienna
Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares, Director of the Center for Applied Linguistics, gave a lecture in the Academy of Sciences of Austria on the dictionaries created in the institution. The lecture was part of the activities during his visit to the Semantic Technology Institute (STI) of the University of Innsbruck in Austria. The Center for Applied Linguistics and the STI have had academic ties for many years. Read more
The Director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics Participates in Important Phraseology and Lexicography Conferences
On November 2011, Doctor Leonel Ruiz Miyares was invited to give a Master Lecture on the occasion of the Second International Congress on Phraseology and Paramiology and the First Brazilian Congress on Phraseology, sponsored by the University of Brasilia, Brazil.
The conferences were held from November 11 through 18 and were an excellent opportunity for this distinguished Cuban researcher to exchange with participants from other countries of the American continent on scientific results obtained by the Centre for Applied Linguistics. Once again, the outstanding contributions of this Cuban centre to the development of Spanish Phraseology and Lexicography was revealed.Read more
Philosophy Doctor in Technical Sciences Leonel Ruiz Miyares, director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics, was invited to be part of the Examining Committee for the Doctoral Defence of Nora Barroso Moreno, from the University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain.
Barroso Moreno’s thesis was supervised by Karmele Lopez de Ipiña, PhD., and was entitled “Aportación a la gestión semántica de audio en entornos complejos” (A Contribution to the Semantic Management of Sound in Complex Environments). Read more
The Dictionary Marathon and Spelling Contests are some of the activities sponsored by the Centre for Applied Linguistics in collaboration with the Ministry of Education to promote the correct use of the Spanish language in primary schoolchildren. The Marathon mainly aims at training students in rapidly searching words in the dictionary. To achieve this, individual search is timed using a digital chronometer so as to determine the students´ speed level. Read more
The Centre for Applied Linguistics Launches Two New Books
The Centre for Applied Linguistics launched two new books in the Santiago municipality of Songo-La Maya on October 2011. The first is entitled Desarrollo Léxico en Escolares de Primaria: Ejercicios para su Perfeccionamiento, and deals with a lexical and statistical analysis of written texts used by primary schoolchildren in the municipality of Guamá, province of Santiago de Cuba, and with a selection of educational exercises designed to improve language mastery among the said schoolchildren. Its author, Philosophy Doctor in Philology Celia Maria Perez Marques, headed a team made up by Mileidis Quintana Polanco, MSc. and Leonel Ruiz Miyares, PhD., among others. Read more
For many years the Centre for Applied Linguistics and the University of the Basque Country have establish relations in the field of science. As part of these relations, a paper entitled La segunda y tercera ediciones del Diccionario Básico Escolar (Second and Third Editions of the Diccionario Básico Escolar) by Eloina Miyares Bermudez, Xabier Artola Zubillaga, Iñaki Alegría Loinaz, Xabier Arregi Iparragirre, Leonel Ruis Miyares, Cristina Alamo Suarez and Celia Perez Marques was given at the 14th International Congress on Lexicography (EURALEX-2010). Read more
Senior researchers from the Centre for Applied Linguistics Eloina Miyares Bermudez and Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez were granted the 2010 Work National Hero award. This award is a well-deserved recognition of the outstanding work carried out by these two researchers for the correct use of language.
This octogenarian couple has been united by common professional interests and share experiences like their studies at the Oriente Teacher Training School, the foundation of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and the teaching of scientific courses to professionals from different specialties. Among the many books they have written based on studies jointly conducted by them outstand the Estudio del Léxico Activo Funcional del Escolar Cubano, awarded in 1987 by the Academy of Sciences of Cuba; the Vacuna Ortográfica Val-Cuba, and the Diccionario Básico Escolar. These and other important work results perfectly back up the award granted to these important figures from the Cuban culture. (May 2010)
The Centre for Applied Linguistics (CLA) was visited on April 2010 by Doctor Lina Dominguez, Cuban Vice-Minister of Sciences, Technology and Environment.
During the meeting with CLA’s directives and researchers, the Vice-Minister evaluated the progress of projects being conducted by this scientific institution, and the preparations for the 12th International Symposium on Social Communication, a conference having a high profile at national and international levels and that is scheduled to take place in January 2011. The Vice- Minister also had an exchange with young researchers that recently joined the centre’s staff. Read more
Doctors Xavier Artola and Xavier Arregi, academics and researchers from the University of the Basque Country visited the Centre for Applied Linguistics (CLA) of Santiago de Cuba from February to March 2010.
During their stay in the country, the two Basque specialists and members of the CLA worked in the preparation of the Base de Datos Léxica del Español de Cuba and established new cooperation projects. Read more
The second edition of the Diccionario Básico Escolar was launched in the year 2008 by a lexicographic team headed, once again, by Senior Researcher and Honorary Doctor Eloina Miyares Bermudez. A team headed by Doctor Leonel Ruiz Miyares was responsible for publishing the book, which is characterized mainly by a wider variety of definitions, concepts and senses. Sponsored by the Basque Government, the dictionary includes more and better language and didactic elements in relation to its first edition. Doctor Adria Gell Labañino, academic from the Frank Pais Garcia Pedagogical University, presided over the launching held at the Salon de los Vitrales of the Revolution Square in Santiago de Cuba. Read more
Last January, Doctor Sven Tarp, researcher from the Lexicography Centre of the University of Aarthus, Denmark, taught a five-day workshop on lexicography.
The workshop dealt with the vast experience of the staff from the Lexicography Centre of the University of Aarthus in the creation of dictionaries, and included a lecture on the current trends in the creation of lexicographic books.
In return, the outstanding specialist knew more about dictionaries produced by the Centre for Applied Linguistics, their characteristics and all data related to their publication and distribution nationwide through the so-called scientific trailers. (January 2010).
Doctor Leonel Ruiz Miyares was invited in 2009 to teach a cycle of lectures as part of the Master’s Course in Natural Language Processing held at the University of France-Comté, Besançon, France.
The cycle of lectures was developed from February 12 to May 9 that year and Doctor Ruiz Miyares’s invitation constituted a recognition to the work he, and especially the Centre for Applied Linguistics, have carried out in favour of the development of this specialty in Cuba. This exchange also contributed to strengthen the professional and scientific cooperation relations among colleagues from these two nations. Read more
Distinguished researchers Eloina Miyares Bermudez and Nancy Cristina Alamo Suarez were invited to participate in the Annual Academic and Cultural Week held at the Faculty of Colima, Mexico in 2007.
In the conference, both researchers taught master lectures on the work developed in Cuba to favour enhancement of spelling in students, using methods that prevent and eradicate misspellings. They also taught a workshop course on the book Vacuna Ortográfica Val-Cuba by Doctor Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez and Senior Researcher Eloina Miyares Bermudez. These Cuban researchers being invited to this conference evidence the prestige Cuba has gained in the field of language and pedagogical research and has contribute to strengthen the scientific cooperation ties existing between the Cuban and Mexican institutions. (May 2007)
Otorgan Doctorado Honoris Causa a relevante investigadora del Centro de Lingüística Aplicada
The Chancellor of the University of Oriente (UO) Doctor Zaida Valdes Estrada, at the proposal of the Faculty of Social and Humanistic Sciences, bestowed Senior Researcher Eloina Miyares Bermudez with an Honorary Degree in Social Sciences on October 18, 2006, in recognition of the commendable work she has carried out in teaching multiple generations of professionals and as a prestigious researcher.
Doctor Eloina Miyares has taught and given lectures in uncountable postgraduate courses, workshops, and congresses. She has created methods to improve pronunciation in secondary and senior high school students, and supervised studies on the vocabulary of Cuban schoolchildren. She has led scientific projects resulting in the creation of the first school dictionaries produced in Cuba. She designed a modern form of spreading research results, i.e. the National Scientific Trailers. She initiated the International Symposia on Social Communication. These and other contributions have been made by this notable researcher who has also won uncountable awards and prizes, being some of the most important ones the National Prize in Pedagogy; the Carlos J. Finlay Order; the Frank Pais Garcia Order; the Lazaro Peña Grade One Order; the Cuban Culture Medal; and the National Prize awarded by the Academy of Science of Cuba (ACC). Read more