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Dr. Giulia Berchio

© Alan Humerose

Research assistant

+41 26 305 62 91
giulia.berchio@unifr.ch

Research domains

  • Sociolinguistics and variational linguistics
  • Plurlingualism and contact linguistics
  • Folk linguistics
  • Didactics of plurilingualism

PhD thesis

Modellare la lingua in contesto in situazioni di bilinguismo: Monologhi in italiano e svizzero tedesco di parlanti a dominanza linguistica variabile.

Research projects (direction)

Title

The treatment of errors in the foreign language

A comparison of correction practices for written texts in French, English, Italian, Romansh and German in primary school

Duration

03.2025 - 03.2027

In language pedagogy, a linguistic error is commonly defined as an element that fails to conform to a norm (e.g. a grammatical, orthographic, pragmatic rule). In general topic of errors has generated much debate in pedagogical circles, and...

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Research projects (collaboration)

Title

Information structure in bilingual speakers

Cross-linguistic influences and language dominance

Duration

01.2017 - 12.2021

Swiss National Science Foundation, project funding, project no. 176338 The aim of the project is to examine the different ways in which French, German and Italian speakers achieve cohesion in narrative spoken discourse. Our approach is derived...

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Publications

  • Berchio, G. (2017). La promozione dell’italiano in Germania. Aggiornamenti, 10. ADI e V. C/O Sprachenzentrum der Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, S. 37-43.
  • Berchio, G., & Berthele, R. (2022). Struttura informativa e dominanza linguistica: Operazionalizzazione nell’ambito del bilinguismo individuale italiano/svizzero tedesco. In M. Casoni (Ed.), Linguisti in contatto 3. Ricerche di linguistica italiana in Svizzera e sulla Svizzera (pp. 173–188). OLSI.