Eloína Miyares Bermúdez

Eloina Miyares Bermudez (1928 – July 26, 2015)[1] was a Cuban linguist and academician. She led the creation of the Diccionario Básico Escolar (DBE; Cuban basic school dictionary) from its first edition in 2005 until its fourth edition (digital in 2013 and paper in January 2015).[2] The Diccionario Básico Escolar is one of the books with the greatest circulation in Cuba.

Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Born1928
Santiago de Cuba
Died2015
Santiago de Cuba
NationalityCuban

Biography

Eloina Miyares Bermudez studied at the Escuela Normal de Oriente, from which she graduated in 1947. She first served as a teacher of rural areas in the municipality of Palma Soriano, where she participated in the literacy campaign. She then studied at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Santiago de Cuba, graduating with a degree in Letters. She taught at the university until 1972 when she became a researcher at the Center of Applied Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences. She studied acoustic phonetics at the Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.[3]

With her husband, philologist Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernández, she created a methodology for teachers and students to improve their pronunciation and spelling. The couple also founded the Center for Applied Linguistics of Santiago de Cuba (CLA) in 1971.[4]

Bermudez had at least seven sons, including Dr. Leonel Miyares Ruiz.[5]

Selected works
  • 1998, Diccionario escolar ilustrado
  • 1999, Vacuna ortográfica VAL-CUBA : nivel primario : metodología para prevenir y erradicar las faltas de ortografía
  • 2000, En torno al sustantivo y adjetivo en el español actual
  • 2003, Diccionario básico escolar
  • 2006, Léxico activo-funcional del escolar cubano
  • 2006, Linguistics in the twenty first century

References
  1. "Eloína Miyares, the mother of the Cuban Basic School Dictionary". Ixa Group Language Technology: News from the Ixa Group in the University of the Basque Country. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  2. Diccionario Básico Escolar.
  3. Eloína Miyares Ecured.
  4. 40th anniversary of the Centro de Lingüística Aplicada in Santiago de Cuba Blog del grupo de investigación IXA
  5. Rojas, Martha. "Center for Applied Linguistics in Santiago de Cuba". Caribbean News Digital. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
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