Soft skills e intercomprensione: sviluppo di competenze professionali per studenti universitari linguisti e non linguisti
Soft Skills and Intercomprehension: Development of Professional Skills for Linguist and Non-Linguist University Students

Summary/Abstract: Frameworks describing competences acquirable through intercomprehension highlight a close link between the development of intercomprehension competences and the acquisition of transversal competences. In the context of multilingual communication, speakers activate metacognitive, strategic, collaborative, relational, risk assumption and risk management skills transferable to professional and private contexts.Starting from this observation, in the academic year 2022/23 a course on intercomprehension between Romance languages was included in the “Transversal Skills” project of the Teaching and Learning Center of the University of Verona, aimed at promoting the acquisition of useful skills in the younger generations from an interpersonal and occupational point of view.The course aimed to lead learners to insert unexpected linguistic-cultural behaviors into shared frames of meaning to interact effectively in multilingual and intercultural contexts and collaborate productively in synchronous and asynchronous online work contexts, respecting times, roles and group objectives. After illustrating the concepts of “competence” and “soft skills”, the intervention will present the characteristics of the course and the methods of delivery and will focus on the research methodology adopted (survey of the perception of the skills gained by the students, analysis of written interactions, final diary), the qualitative-quantitative analysis conducted on the data collected and the methods of detecting the traces of maturation of the skills investigated.

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