Mireia Trenchs Parera
Biographic Data
| ID | 4794937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mireia Trenchs Parera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mireia Trenchs |
| FAMILY NAME | Parera |
| SIGNATURE | PARERA M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1646-550X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Lifelong learning in age-inclusive higher education
Adopting a case study approach within the Inclu-Linguam research project on inclusion, multilingualism, and interculturality in higher education, this article reports on the challenges and opportunities encountered by older learners at a highly internationalized university in Barcelona. At this university, which welcomes older students through an intergenerational life-long learning program, formal instruction is provided in the two official loca…
Becoming “Global” in Higher Education
This article focuses on the discursive construction of a "global persona" made by undergraduates ending an internationalised degree.By means of two case studies, we analyse their positioning regarding the university's diverse definitions of "globality" and "global personae" as they emerge in institutional webpages.We look into how students' (mis)alignments with those definitions are shaped by academic expectations and choices, and the material co…
Measuring international posture at an internationalised university in Barcelona
This study investigates local first-year undergraduates’ international posture (Yashima, Citation2002, Citation2009) when starting studies at an internationalised university in the multicultural and multilingual context of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). We aimed, first, to explore the configuration of the international posture measurement model (Yashima, Citation2009) in a European university and to contrast it with Yashima’s (Citation2009) model …
Exploring transcultural competence in the internationalised university classroom
This mixed-methods study explores whether undergraduates in a multilingual, multicultural university – and more specifically in a multi-dimensionally internationalised classroom – manifest transcultural competence when starting university studies. The article precisely focuses on the role of intercultural friendships and personal and family plurilingualism in the construction of an identity that reveals such competence, namely, a transcultural id…
Impact of plurilingualism and previous intercultural experience on undergraduates’ intercultural sensitivity at the start of university studies
This study investigates first-year undergraduates when starting their studies in a highly internationalised public university settled in a multicultural and multilingual European city. It focuses on to what extent individual differences as regards plurilingualism and previous intercultural experience are related to a higher or lower degree of Intercultural Sensitivity (IS), in the five dimensions of this construct (Chen and Starosta 2000). 881 st…
Intercultural education in understudied contexts
Extensive research has been done to identify the conceptual components of intercultural competence (IC), which resulted in a plethora of models and a wide array of differently defined constructs that are in use today to develop and assess IC. However, the majority of IC research comes from relatively similar contexts that are westernised, high on the diversity scale, and employ modern educational practices. This research study set out to investig…
Language Policies, Ideologies and Attitudes in Catalonia. Part 1
This and a paired article to appear in a subsequent issue of this journal review the sociolinguistic and allied research on language attitudes, ideologies and practices in Catalonia in the context of two major sequential official language policies. The present article is devoted to the first policy called Normalització Lingüística ( Linguistic Normalization ), implemented in 1983 by the autonomous government of Catalonia. The policy was a languag…
Language Policies, Ideologies, and Attitudes, Part 2
This, the second of two articles on Catalonian language policies and their sociolinguistic effects, reviews research related to the current policy called the Pla per la Llengua i la Cohesió Social (Plan for Language and Social Cohesion) inaugurated in 2004. The Plan addresses a situation in which Catalan is stable demolinguistically but in which globalization and international immigration are seen as long-term threats to the language's vitality. …
Linguistic reception of Latin American students in Catalonia and their responses to educational language policies
This study explores the connections between language policy implementation in three Barcelona-area secondary schools and the language attitudes and behaviors of Spanish-speaking Latin American newcomers. Data were collected through interviews and ethnographic participant observation document indexes of different forms of language socialization processes and highlight the role of teachers and of ‘Reception Classes’ (RCs) in which students receive …
Diversity of language ideologies in Spanish-speaking youth of different origins in Catalonia
To explore language attitudes and ideologies in urban Catalonia, focus group structured interviews were conducted with two groups of adolescents of Spanish-speaking origins: the Autochthonous group, descendents of mid-late twentieth century immigrants from other parts of Spain, and the Immigrant group, who came from Latin America. The Autochthonous group displayed a clear spectrum of six sets of language ideologies. At one extreme was ‘linguistic…
Normalizing bilingualism
This study examines the evolution of language attitudes of linguistically diverse adolescents in urban Catalonia a generation after the instauration of Linguistic Normalization, official language policies favoring Catalan. Woolard (1984, 1989) and Woolard and Gahng's (1990) classic Catalan/Spanish matched guise studies are used as a baseline. Current data come from a modified and expanded replication of those original studies. Findings show: (1) …
From Testing to Assessment
Normalizing bilingualism
This study examines the evolution of language attitudes of linguistically diverse adolescents in urban Catalonia a generation after the instauration of Linguistic Normalization, official language policies favoring Catalan. Woolard (1984, 1989) and Woolard and Gahng's (1990) classic Catalan/Spanish matched guise studies are used as a baseline. Current data come from a modified and expanded replication of those original studies. Findings show: (1) …
Diversity of language ideologies in Spanish-speaking youth of different origins in Catalonia
To explore language attitudes and ideologies in urban Catalonia, focus group structured interviews were conducted with two groups of adolescents of Spanish-speaking origins: the Autochthonous group, descendents of mid-late twentieth century immigrants from other parts of Spain, and the Immigrant group, who came from Latin America. The Autochthonous group displayed a clear spectrum of six sets of language ideologies. At one extreme was ‘linguistic…
Language Policies, Ideologies, and Attitudes, Part 2
This, the second of two articles on Catalonian language policies and their sociolinguistic effects, reviews research related to the current policy called the Pla per la Llengua i la Cohesió Social (Plan for Language and Social Cohesion) inaugurated in 2004. The Plan addresses a situation in which Catalan is stable demolinguistically but in which globalization and international immigration are seen as long-term threats to the language's vitality. …
Exploring transcultural competence in the internationalised university classroom
This mixed-methods study explores whether undergraduates in a multilingual, multicultural university – and more specifically in a multi-dimensionally internationalised classroom – manifest transcultural competence when starting university studies. The article precisely focuses on the role of intercultural friendships and personal and family plurilingualism in the construction of an identity that reveals such competence, namely, a transcultural id…
Impact of plurilingualism and previous intercultural experience on undergraduates’ intercultural sensitivity at the start of university studies
This study investigates first-year undergraduates when starting their studies in a highly internationalised public university settled in a multicultural and multilingual European city. It focuses on to what extent individual differences as regards plurilingualism and previous intercultural experience are related to a higher or lower degree of Intercultural Sensitivity (IS), in the five dimensions of this construct (Chen and Starosta 2000). 881 st…
From Testing to Assessment
Normalizing bilingualism
This study examines the evolution of language attitudes of linguistically diverse adolescents in urban Catalonia a generation after the instauration of Linguistic Normalization, official language policies favoring Catalan. Woolard (1984, 1989) and Woolard and Gahng's (1990) classic Catalan/Spanish matched guise studies are used as a baseline. Current data come from a modified and expanded replication of those original studies. Findings show: (1) …
Diversity of language ideologies in Spanish-speaking youth of different origins in Catalonia
To explore language attitudes and ideologies in urban Catalonia, focus group structured interviews were conducted with two groups of adolescents of Spanish-speaking origins: the Autochthonous group, descendents of mid-late twentieth century immigrants from other parts of Spain, and the Immigrant group, who came from Latin America. The Autochthonous group displayed a clear spectrum of six sets of language ideologies. At one extreme was ‘linguistic…
Linguistic reception of Latin American students in Catalonia and their responses to educational language policies
This study explores the connections between language policy implementation in three Barcelona-area secondary schools and the language attitudes and behaviors of Spanish-speaking Latin American newcomers. Data were collected through interviews and ethnographic participant observation document indexes of different forms of language socialization processes and highlight the role of teachers and of ‘Reception Classes’ (RCs) in which students receive …
Language Policies, Ideologies and Attitudes in Catalonia. Part 1
This and a paired article to appear in a subsequent issue of this journal review the sociolinguistic and allied research on language attitudes, ideologies and practices in Catalonia in the context of two major sequential official language policies. The present article is devoted to the first policy called Normalització Lingüística ( Linguistic Normalization ), implemented in 1983 by the autonomous government of Catalonia. The policy was a languag…
Language Policies, Ideologies, and Attitudes, Part 2
This, the second of two articles on Catalonian language policies and their sociolinguistic effects, reviews research related to the current policy called the Pla per la Llengua i la Cohesió Social (Plan for Language and Social Cohesion) inaugurated in 2004. The Plan addresses a situation in which Catalan is stable demolinguistically but in which globalization and international immigration are seen as long-term threats to the language's vitality. …
Becoming “Global” in Higher Education
This article focuses on the discursive construction of a "global persona" made by undergraduates ending an internationalised degree.By means of two case studies, we analyse their positioning regarding the university's diverse definitions of "globality" and "global personae" as they emerge in institutional webpages.We look into how students' (mis)alignments with those definitions are shaped by academic expectations and choices, and the material co…
Measuring international posture at an internationalised university in Barcelona
This study investigates local first-year undergraduates’ international posture (Yashima, Citation2002, Citation2009) when starting studies at an internationalised university in the multicultural and multilingual context of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). We aimed, first, to explore the configuration of the international posture measurement model (Yashima, Citation2009) in a European university and to contrast it with Yashima’s (Citation2009) model …
Exploring transcultural competence in the internationalised university classroom
This mixed-methods study explores whether undergraduates in a multilingual, multicultural university – and more specifically in a multi-dimensionally internationalised classroom – manifest transcultural competence when starting university studies. The article precisely focuses on the role of intercultural friendships and personal and family plurilingualism in the construction of an identity that reveals such competence, namely, a transcultural id…
Impact of plurilingualism and previous intercultural experience on undergraduates’ intercultural sensitivity at the start of university studies
This study investigates first-year undergraduates when starting their studies in a highly internationalised public university settled in a multicultural and multilingual European city. It focuses on to what extent individual differences as regards plurilingualism and previous intercultural experience are related to a higher or lower degree of Intercultural Sensitivity (IS), in the five dimensions of this construct (Chen and Starosta 2000). 881 st…
Intercultural education in understudied contexts
Extensive research has been done to identify the conceptual components of intercultural competence (IC), which resulted in a plethora of models and a wide array of differently defined constructs that are in use today to develop and assess IC. However, the majority of IC research comes from relatively similar contexts that are westernised, high on the diversity scale, and employ modern educational practices. This research study set out to investig…
Lifelong learning in age-inclusive higher education
Adopting a case study approach within the Inclu-Linguam research project on inclusion, multilingualism, and interculturality in higher education, this article reports on the challenges and opportunities encountered by older learners at a highly internationalized university in Barcelona. At this university, which welcomes older students through an intergenerational life-long learning program, formal instruction is provided in the two official loca…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (6 works) · Gender Studies in Language (5 works) · Intercultural communication (5 works) · Multilingualism (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works)