The International colloquium on "Language Skills for Economic and Social Inclusion" has been organised by the research team, as a part of the project activities. An special session has been organised with different project members, who have had the opportunity to present advances on their research. Besides, discussion on the ILT scale were also carried out. This international colloquium was held on the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin the past October 13, 2017, hosted by the local partner member.
Together with the International Colloquium, the "Language and Occupation" research project organised its second international project meeting on October 12, 2017. The meeting was an excellent opportunity to know about the project development as well as to discuss on the future tasks to be developed.
Among other discussions, some project members present their research breakthroughs:
- Amado Alarcón: “Measuring occupational language skills”.
- Antoni Vidal-Suñé; Ma. Belén López-Panisello: “Construyendo una Escala de Intensidad Lingüística del Trabajo (ILT): Una primera aproximación tentativa y experimental”.
- Nune Ayvazyan; Ester Torres: “Migrants, machine translation, and mediators: The complex triangle of the three M’s”.
- Antonio Di Paolo: “The economic and social consequences of language-in-education policies”.
- Till Burckhardt: “The Helvetic arrangement vs. the lingua franca”.
- Josep Ubalde: “When language skills are rewarded?”.
- Tinka T. Schubert: “What the 1.5 generation of chinese immigrants in Barcelona tell us about their language skills for social cohesion and integration?”.
- Teresa Corbella: “Building a Scale of Linguistic Intensity of Work (ILT), based on surveys”.
