Hari-katu: Basque as language, emotion, and community in residential care homes for children and adolescents in the protection system
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https://doi.org/10.7179/PSRI_2026.48.06Keywords:
Minority languages, translanguaging, organised leisure, informal speech, residential careAbstract
This article presents the results of the Hari-Katu programme, developed in eleven residential care homes in Gipuzkoa with 66 children and adolescents aged between 8 and 15, eleven social educators and two pedagogues. The initiative has promoted the relational use of Basque in non-formal contexts through Emotional and Conscious Translanguaging (ECT), which builds on the linguistic repertoires of each participant and integrates organised leisure and playful activities. The main objective has been to analyse the impact of the programme on motivation and attachment to Basque, as well as its pedagogical and linguistic implications for the educational team. A mixed-methods design has been employed, with the simultaneous collection of qualitative and quantitative data through Likert-scale questionnaires, evaluation journals, focus groups, interviews and field notes. The findings highlight a positive effect on motivation, linguistic attachment and the spontaneous use of Basque, as well as on the involvement of the educational team in its promotion.
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