The international workshop "Language and Professions" has been organised by the research team of the project past June 27th, 2017 at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). The seminar has been attended by members of the local research team of the projects CSO2015-64247-P (National RTD Plan, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness) and 2016ACUP00020 (RecerCaixa program, driven by ACUP and Obra Social "laCaixa") and members of the educational community of the University working on language, competences, occupations and communication.
Besides, on June 28th, 2017 was organised the third project meeting of the research team of Language and Occupations at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). The project meeting was useful to evaluate the previous open debate, prior tasks and activities developed as well as to organize future work.
Among other debates, some members of the project team presented their advances in their research:
- M. Jesús Muiños: “Competencias lingüísticas en los orígenes de la clasificación profesional en España (1920-1990)".
- Teresa Corbella: “Construyendo una Escala de Intensidad Lingüística del Trabajo (ILT): Trabajos Preliminares para Analizar la Congruencia entre las Capacidades Lingüísticas Reales y las Competencias Teóricas”.
- Josep Ubalde: “Language Work Requirements as a Source of Inter-occupations Payoff Variability”.
- Cecilio Lapresta: "Nuevos Descendientes de Migrantes en Cataluña: Un Análisis sobre su Integración Lingüística”.
- Antoni Vidal-Suñé & Ma. Belén López Panisello: “Propuesta para Elaborar la Escala de Intensidad Lingüística del Trabajo (ILT) en base a Modelos de Ecuaciones Estructurales: Una Primera Aproximación Tentativa”.
- Josiah McC Heyman: “The Political Field Surrounding the Dual Language Movement (education and performance)”.
