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Un modello di multilinguismo: Erasmus Mundus
Elisabeth Wippel – Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
Abstract
Erasmus Mundus is a programme designed with the objective of promoting mobility
and cooperation in higher education. This project enables students, teachers, researchers
and employees in this field to participate in a study period in several foreign
countries. In this way, it is possible for participants to learn and / or improve their
competences in more than one foreign language simultaneously, in a multi-lingual
environment. The Master of Cultural LANDScapes (MACLANDS) is one of numerous
courses existing within the Erasmus Mundus project. Scholarship holders spend 24
months in three different universities in Italy, France and Germany, and thus need to
learn French, Italian and German. During the second semester of academic year 2010-
2011, the University of Naples Federico II was, for the third year, host to MACLANDS
participants. The experience of the previous two years has shown that the acquisition
and use of more than one foreign language contemporaneously in a short time may
create problems regarding attendance at university lessons. As a consequence, the
study of German in Germany, of French in France and Italian in Italy, becomes the
vehicle by means of which students are to understand and, above all, acquire the
subject contents of the Master’s programme. To enable participants to deal with this,
pedagogic activities focus mostly on the skills of listening and speaking following a
communicative, inter-cultural approach. Communication in the classroom is multilingual,
with frequent code switching. Thanks to this richness and diversity of languages, a
stimulating atmosphere is created, allowing for sociolinguistic, morpho-syntactic and
lexical comparisons and exchanges, as well as those of a cultural nature and between
course participants and the teacher.
Keywords: Erasmus Mundus, Master MACLANDS, multilingualism, language acquisition,
German as a foreign language
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