Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne

The programme is open to students of any mother tongue with a minimum level of B1 competence in at least one Romance language and it aims to allow the development of intercomprehension skills, through the discovery and use of the main strategies.

More specifically, it is meant to develop written and oral intercomprehension skills (B1 + of the CEFR) in numerous Romance languages (national and non-national), enhance metacognitive strategies, intercultural dialogue and telecollaboration.

At the end of the activities the students

• will know the basic principles of the intercomprehensive approach;
• will have acquired some basic elements of Romance linguistics and the main IC strategies;
• will be able to apply the principles and strategies in contexts of real peer-to-peer communication;
• will be able to carry out communicative tasks related to their study field in intercomprehensive contexts.

• Theoretical framework of intercomprehension
• Observation of the main approaches and related projects;
• Discovery of the main intercomprehension strategies;
• Focus on students' personal skills and language biographies;
• Written and oral comprehension of documents in Romance languages relating to everyday life (national and international news), to the field of study and / or to the work sector of the participants;
• Comprehension of dialogues in intercomprehension;
• Written and oral interaction with speakers of different Romance languages (intercomprehension, intercommunication and inter-production strategies);
• Activities in multilingual international groups.

This innovative teaching is developed in COIL mode, in synergy with several Universities implied in the UNITA project. For this reason, the courses will include a special calendar, realised in collaboration with the intercultural teams of Chambéry, Pau and Timisoara.

All training will take place in an integrated mode and will include:

• an in-presence lesson on Fridays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., starting from October 4th, room to be defined;
• asynchronous online activities in multilingual teams;
• synchronous and asynchronous, written and oral, telecollaborative activities ;

Course material will be available on the moodle platforms:

• Course moodle 
• Moodle of the multilingual session

STUDENTS WISHING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERACTIVE ONLINE ACTIVITIES OF THE MULTILINGUAL SESSION MUST REGISTER FOR THE COURSE BY 3 OCTOBER.

IN ANY CASE, REGISTRATION ON THIS PAGE IS NECESSARY TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE COURSE MOODLE.

The exam will be carried out in different ways depending on participation in the course.

For UNITO students :

• For those who attended the course, the assessment will be based on a short written test and the final project realised in the UCIL-IC session.
• Non-attenders will have to agree with the teacher on a topic for personal work and will take a theoretical-practical written examination.

Students may take the test in their Romance mother tongue or in the Romance language they know best (if native speakers of languages of other families).

Dates of the exams

to be established

• Online interaction with teachers and students of different romance languages (UCIL-IC Project)
• Online exercises on the moodle platform.

Students with specific learning disorders or other special needs can request a meeting in person or online on webex.

Further texts and bibliographic advice will be provided in class and published on the moodle platform of the teaching.