34.1192, Calls: Teaching Languages to Older Adults

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1192. Thu Apr 13 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.1192, Calls: Teaching Languages to Older Adults

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Date: 12-Apr-2023
From: Karen Roehr-Brackin [ladeli at essex.ac.uk]
Subject: Teaching Languages to Older Adults


Full Title: Teaching Languages to Older Adults

Date: 19-Oct-2023 - 19-Oct-2023
Location: Online, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Karen Roehr-Brackin
Meeting Email: ladeli at essex.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.essex.ac.uk/events/2023/10/19/ladeli-workshop

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2023

Meeting Description:

The aim of this workshop is to bring together research into and
practical experiences with teaching languages to older adults aged
60+. In particular, we will consider the benefits and challenges
associated with teaching third-age learners. What can and what cannot
be achieved? Dimensions of interest include learner factors such as
affect (confidence, anxiety, self-efficacy), cognition, mental and
physical health, social factors, and the role of the teacher. To what
extent do approaches to teaching and learning languages require
adaptation? How can teachers best serve older learners?

We will focus on the specific needs and preferences of older adults,
while at the same time bearing in mind that individual differences are
as important (or perhaps even more important) in later life stages as
they are at all other points during the human lifespan. The plenary
papers will report on work with both healthy, independent older adults
and older adults in care homes and/or with early-stage dementia.

Call for Papers:

Following our successful workshop on language learning in older adults
in June 2022, we are pleased to issue a call for papers on teaching
languages in older adults that address any of the themes outlined
above. We invite papers from both researchers and practitioners
(language teachers) for 20-minute presentations followed by 10 minutes
of discussion.

Submission Guidelines:

Please include a title, author name(s), affiliation(s) and an abstract
of up to 300 words outlining the content of the proposed paper. Please
indicate whether your submission is a research paper or a practitioner
paper and submit via email to ladeli at essex.ac.uk by 15 June 2023.
Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of TALL members.

Registration for the workshop will open in July 2023.



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