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).
As Doctor Eloina Miyares stated:
““This centre I have run for so many years, the CLA, has always developed works aiming at improving teaching. My fascination with teaching began even before I began studying at the University of Oriente. That is the reason why, once there, I became an assistant student in the subject Writing and Composition. I always had excellent relations with my professors, who always admired me for being able to combine my university studies with my eight little children’s upbringing and continue to be the best student in the class. We started being thirty in the class and only five succeeded in completing our studies. On the other hand, after I graduated, all projects developed by me at the Centre for Applied Linguistics enjoyed great prestige at the University of Oriente and reflected everything I had learned in that distinguished educational centre. I had excellent professors like Francisco Prats Puig, Adolfina Cossio, and Mercedes Cathcart who I owe an excellent education that has brought my work far beyond the Cuban borders. Afterwards, I have travelled abroad, giving lectures at universities like Gothenburg (Sweden), Orizaba and Colima (Mexico), Tarragona and Barcelona (Spain), among others. I have participated in scientific conferences both in Cuba and abroad; and became a specialist in all levels of language. I love Linguistics and everything related to it, but I also like teaching, so all projects in which I have been involved are useful for Spanish professors and teachers.” (October 2006).
