Teaching Modern Greek as a Second/ Foreign Language for specific purposes to the foreign staff of Greek Aged Care Facility - International Conference of Language Teaching and Learning in the contemporary educational and societal environment (2-4 July), University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Description

The paper presents the applied methodology in the funded teaching project ‘Culture and Greek language teaching to foreign staff in Aged Care Facility’ which aims to equip non-Greek carers of a Greek Aged Care facility with Greek language skills and Greek cultural awareness that can be used in their everyday communication with the Greek-speaking residents establishing an effective communication with Greek speaking residents. Statistics show that a large number of residents in nursing homes, whose L1 is not English, are already being cared for in Aged Care clinics and nursing homes in Australia. For these residents, the language of communication and the associated cultural connotations affect the quality of their everyday care and wellbeing at Aged care clinics, especially during pandemic periods. The need to close the communication gap between professionals, carers and residents of bilingual nursing homes has become more urgent than ever (González-Lee, 1992; Jonsson-Devillers, 1992; Kothari & Kothari, 1997; Mason, 1991). This funded research project aims to reveal the effectiveness of the short language teaching course in the daily communication in the aged care facility during isolation, as despite the early warnings, today in Australia the residents and staff in aged care facilities continue to compose a major proportion of the positive cases and about one-third of all deaths from COVID-19. https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1920/Quick_Guides/COVID-19AgedCare

Period	4 Jul 2021
Held at	University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Degree of Recognition	International