UB and CIVIS MA and BA Students are invited to apply for the CIVIS open online course “Second Language (L2) and Foreign Language (FL) for learners with atypical development”. The deadline for application is 15 February 2023.
The course will take place from the beginning of March until the end of May 2023 and is taught by Dr Evangelia Kyritsi, Laboratory Teaching Staff, Laboratory of Psycholinguistics & Neurolinguistics, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
The CIVIS open online course is open for CIVIS MA and BA with a level of English of at least B2 and will consist of ten 2-hour sessions and two 3-hour sessions at the end of the course (Weeks 11-12)
For registration the students have to fill in the application form available here until 15 February 2023.
The course assessment includes: an individual student presentation of a research article (duration 10 min), 30% and a final written assignment (1500 words), 70%.
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the various issues implicated in Second Language (L2) and Foreign Language (FL) teaching and learning, with a particular focus on students with atypical development. The course first sets the background to this topic by discussing relevant official reports. A brief description of language development and language disorders in monolingual individuals follows. After issues of bilingualism are discussed, subsequent lectures focus on L2 and FL teaching and learning in atypical learners (hearing impairment, autism spectrum disorder, developmental language disorder, intellectual disability, dementia). The role of the home environment in the language learning experiences of atypical learners is then considered. The course concludes with the language teachers’ perspective.
Dr. Evangelia Kyritsi is a member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Department of Linguistics (Faculty of Philology), National Kapodistrian University of Athens. She holds a PhD in Clinical Linguistics (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading), an MA in Clinical Linguistic Research (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading) and a BA in English Language and Literature. She has work experience teaching English as a foreign language to students with hearing impairment, autism spectrum disorders, language disorders and intellectual disability. Her email address is Eva.Kyritsi@phil.uoa.gr.
Further information about this open online course are available here.
CIVIS is a European University Alliance gathering 11 member universities: Aix-Marseille Université (France), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece), University of Bucharest (Romania), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Italia), Stockholm University (Sweden), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), University of Glasgow (UK), Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) and University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Selected by the European Commission as one of the first 17 European Universities pilots, it brings together around half a million students and more than 70 000 staff members, including 37 400 academics and researchers.