33.1298, Qs: Participants 60+ for Beginners' Course in Italian

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-1298. Mon Apr 11 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.1298, Qs: Participants 60+ for Beginners' Course in Italian

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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:38:59
From: Helga Donnerer [hd20379 at essex.ac.uk]
Subject: Participants 60+ for Beginners' Course in Italian

 
Opportunity to participate in a project on language learning for older adults
and to take part in free Italian classes 

Would you like to learn some basic Italian in the context of a research
project run by me, Helga Donnerer, a PhD student in the Department of Language
and Linguistics at the University of Essex (supervised by Karen
Roehr-Brackin)? 
I am trying to find out which approaches to language teaching and learning
work best with older adults. I am an older adult myself and an experienced
language teacher. I am going to run 10-week courses in beginners’ Italian
starting on 19 April 2022 for German speaking participants and on 27 April
2022 for English speaking participants. The course you will be assigned to
either uses a monolingual or a multilingual teaching approach as I would like
to find out which course is more effective.

I am looking for people who  
1. are over 60 years of age (there is no upper age limit) 
2. are fluent in English or German, either because it is their native language
or because they have learned it to a high level
3. have no knowledge of Italian (beyond words commonly used in English or
German such as pizza, pasta, ciao…)
4. have access to the internet via a laptop or desktop computer with a camera,
microphone, and speakers/headphones.
 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)



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