Introduction

• Life-span psychology: physical ageing, cognitive process, social aspects
• Europe - the greying society: worldwide situation, trends, developments

Characteristics of language learning senior citizens

• Perception about older learners: partcipants' experiences with senior learners, motivation of senior learners
• Learning environments: new learning settings, new learning places

Challenges for teaching languages to seniors and tools for solution

• Social aspects of teaching senior learners, empowerment by biographical work, increase self-esteem

Put into practice - specific challenges of delivering language courses in theory and practice

• Vocabulary, grammar, speaking skills, learning strategies
• Evaluation of the participants' achievements

Study visit