Helena Torres Purroy
Dr. Helena Torres-Purroy is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Philology and Communication at the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). She is a member of the Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada research group, where she conducts research in language ideologies, intergenerational transmission of minoritized languages, minority language revitalization and language policy and planning. Since 2021, Dr. Torres-Purroy has focused on the study and promotion of Aranese Occitan. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Aranese (Conselh Consultatiu der Aranés), which advises the government of Val d’Aran (Conselh Generau d’Aran) in linguistic matters. She is also involved in the development of language technologies in Aranese. Dr. Torres-Purroy is a member of the editorial board of Revista de Llengua i Dret (Journal of Language and Law) and the coordinator of the blog of this journal (https://eapc-rld.blog.gencat.cat).
Helena Torres-Purroy is member of the Cercle de Lingüística Aplicada (UdL) and of the following research projects:
- Project: Alta minorización y reproducción lingüística en el suroeste europeo (AMRELSE) (PID2021-125859NB-I00)
- Financial institution: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
- Amount granted: 75.867,00 €
- Duration: 2022-2026
- Project: Interculturality, European Citizenship and English as a Lingua Franca: Policies and Practices in Higher Education International Mobility Programmes (FFI2012-35834)
- Financial institution: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
- Amount granted: 51.480€
- Duration: 2013-2016
- Torres-Purroy, H. & Mas-Alcolea, S. (2022). Language policy and multilingualism in semi-peripheral higher education research: Two cases from a University in Catalonia. Linguistics and Education, 71(101105). DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2022.101105 Open access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0898589822000936
- Mas-Alcolea, S. & Torres-Purroy, H. (2022). Discourses of foreign language development in study abroad: Social networks and other intervening factors. Foreign Language Annals. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12612 Open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/flan.12612
- Torres-Purroy, H. & Mas-Alcolea, S. (2021). Applying the Community of Practice Theory in Higher Education: The Case of the Research Group. In Huisman, J. and Tight, M. (Eds.) Theory and Method in Higher Education Research (Theory and Method in Higher Education Research, Vol. 7), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 39-53. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2056-375220210000007003
- Mas-Alcolea, S. & Torres-Purroy, H. (2021). Study abroad and students’ (lack of) integration: The case of a Spanish ghetto in Italy. In R. Mitchell & H. Tyne, Language, Mobility and Study Abroad in the Contemporary European Context (pp. 47-63). Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
- Mas-Alcolea, S. & Torres-Purroy, H. (2021). Shadowing and narrative interviewing combined: the advantages of using an observational method in higher education research. In Huisman, J. and Tight, M. (Eds.), Theory and Method in Higher Education Research, Vol. 7), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 161-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2056-375220210000007010
- Torres-Purroy, H., & Mas-Alcolea, S. (2019). The Internationalization of Scientists’ Communication: An Essential Literature Review. In Turner, P. et al. (Eds.), Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization. (99-112) Routledge.
Helena Torres-Purroy’s teaching mainly concerns the fields of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and discourse analysis. Examples of teaching experience:
- Catalan Sociolinguistics (BA in Catalan Philology and Occitan Studies)
- Applied Linguistics (BA in Catalan Philology and Occitan Studies)
- Analysing English Texts (BA in English Studies)
- Introduction to Linguistics (BA in English Studies)
Dr. Helena Torres-Purroy was a promoter of the Projècte Araina: votzes en aranés. Subvencions per promoure el coneixement i l’ús de l’occità, aranès a l’Aran, a Catalunya. Generalitat de Catalunya. 2022. 6.040,00€. Ref. 7495 D/482000102/4511/0000. www.projecte-araina.org