Intercomprehension for Language for Specific Purposes: enology, viticulture and tourism

The first edition of the BIP course “Intercomprehension for Language for Specific Purposes: enology, viticulture, and tourism” takes place on 1st-5th July 2024 (physical activity) and on 3rd-22nd June 2024 (virtual activity).

The UNITA Intercomprehension for Language for Specific Purposes BIP focuses on intercomprehension and language acquisition using different areas of interest such as enology, viticulture and tourism.

Intercomprehension is a communicative approach where several languages of the same linguistic family are studied/used in parallel; these are either languages related to the learner’s mother tongue (or the language of education) or related to a language already learnt. There is a systematic focus on receptive skills, as the development of comprehension is the most tangible way of using the knowledge of a related language to learn a new one.

The only pre-condition needed is that one of the languages must be already mastered by the learners, either as their mother tongue or as a second language.

The virtual activities will be carried out autonomously by the students and are based on the plurilingual online course "Elementi di Intercomprensione", freely available on the Start@UniTo platform. A meeting will be first organized to explain the syllabus of the course, its goals and requirements. Two other online meetings will check students’ progresses and propose collaborative tasks and exercises.

During the intensive week in Turin students will consolidate knowledge and skills developed during the online part of the BIP. Furthermore, they will focus on the techniques and principles of IC in the Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) “enology, viticulture and tourism” contexts, participating to content classes (using video recordings, simulations or actual classes depending on availability).