TAPP - Trans-Atlantic & Pacific Project

The German-Italian e-tandem project is part of the international TAPP network, which connects native Italian students who study German as L2, with German mother tongue students learners of Italian as a foreign language. The participants in the project will organise periodic online meetings through digital platforms (Meet, Zoom). The interactions will be conducted partly in German, partly in Italian. After the first meetings, unlimited from the point of view of the choice of discussion topics, the subsequent conversations will focus on topics defined by the teachers on the basis of issues (mainly topical) addressed in class.

The project is based on two important principles:

• reciprocity: participants offer their partner adequate linguistic and cultural support; the two interactors must allocate the same time to each of the two languages
• autonomy in learning: each participant is responsible for their own learning process and independently determines their own objectives and methods

The German-Italian e-tandem represents an excellent opportunity to deepen the knowledge and competence of the foreign language and culture.

Coordinators of e-tandem German-Italian project: prof.ssa Miriam Ravetto (Università del Piemonte Orientale) – prof. Gerald Bernhard (Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germania)

For more information, write to miriam.ravetto@uniupo.it