Fitxa persona

Adrià Castells holds a degree in Catalan Philology and Audiovisual Communication from the University of Valencia. He has been a professor of Catalan Studies at the University of Budapest, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, and at the University of Szeged, Szegedi Tudományegyetem, both in Hungary, between 2001 and 2003; and at the University of Manchester, in the United Kingdom, between 2004 and 2015, where he taught Catalan Language and Literature, Communication and Cultural Studies, as well as organizing seminars, workshops and lectures, and advising on cultural matters for the international organization of cultural and academic promotional activities.

He has been training teacher at the CEU-Cardenal Herrera University, and has organised and participated in numerous courses and workshops on new methodologies and processes for learning and teaching languages, especially in relation to Catalan as a foreign language.

In recent years, and since the launch of À Punt Mèdia, he has been a linguistic advisor for the Valencian Media Corporation (CVMC) and has worked on the deployment of the bases of linguistic models for Valencian public media. In addition, he has formed the team of external linguists who work in the Valencian audiovisual network. He conducts research in the field of audiovisual media and specifically on content and linguistic models in television, radio and digital platforms.

As regards official language certification in Valencian, he has been a member of the Programmes and Tests Committee of the Valencian Knowledge Qualification Board (JQCV), and has prepared the adaptation of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ​​to the new JQCV tests. He has also been an active member in the formation of CIEACOVA, the certifying body of Valencian universities: he has been part of the Programmes and Tests Committee and the Assessment Committee. He has also organised and given numerous training courses for examiners and evaluators of the language certification tests of Valencian universities and the Conselleria of Education. He is part of several working groups on teaching, learning and language certification in Catalan, such as “Catalan in teaching” of the ICE of the UAB, and the Anglo-Catalan Society, of which he was a member.