Intercomprehension between two unrelated languages - A case study on Italian and Dutch

Intercomprehension is a form of communication in which a person uses his or her linguistic knowledge to understand other (unknown) languages, which allows two people of different nations to communicate with each other, each using his or her native language. Earlier studies have shown that intercomprehension between related languages is possible. Once intercomprehension between related languages is studied, the step to intercomprehension between unrelated languages is not far off. The present case study focused on written text comprehension only, and investigated whether native speakers of Italian who had attended a course in intercomprehension between Romance languages were able to transfer their strategies to a reading comprehension test and translation of a newspaper article in an unfamiliar Germanic language (Dutch).

About the author

Manon Muilwijk graduated Cum Laude from Università Ca'Foscari Venezia, earning a Master's Degree in Language Education. In the summer of 2015 she presented her research at the national conference AICLU, at Università Ca'Foscari Venezia. Her area of expertise is second language acquisition by children and adults.

Product details

• Authors: Manon Muilwijk
• Publisher: Edizioni Accademiche Italiane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2017
• EAN: 9783330780217
• ISBN: 978-3-33-078021-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 234 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies