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Language / Communication Working with Older Volunteers in Manual Intergenerational Projects Based on the experience with another project the project partners searched for new methods which were appropriate to encourage communication during the cooperative working process in a target group of older people with no or little knowledge of foreign languages. Although the methodical approach of common inter-generational work weakens the importance of verbal expression, the need to interchange in terms of language may not be underestimated. Coordinators of international exchanges with senior citizens should consider that in this specific target group most of the participants do not have sufficient language skills to be able to converse with the guests and hosts or to join in the working process smoothly. Accordingly, it should not be taken for granted that the involved children and adolescents act as interpreters unless they get suitable support by the teachers. This can be significantly improved if it is an explicit part of the project and if it is taken into account by the adolescents’ supervisors in the preparation phase. Thus we recommend considering this issue in advance and – depending on the resources provided (funds, time, personnel) – choosing one of the following options: Possible Proceedings • During the initial selection of the participating seniors make sure there are members with particular language skills who might be able to act as interpreters on the project. • If older children and adolescents with the required language skills participate, they may take over the interpreter’s role after having been prepared properly. (It is the participating school, including the teachers, who are in charge of this). • Preparative language courses for the older people (if there is sufficient time and there are suitable financial resources) • In the methods section coordinators of exchanges for older people will find exercises and techniques that might initiate communication on the exchange, if none of the above-mentioned proceedings is useful. Recommendation Experience during the exchanges within the TRAMP-Project has shown that the hosts usually dominated in numbers, which can easily generate a linguistic superiority of a particular language. Thus it is highly advisable to make the guests’ language(s) audible and to visualize it in many different ways. In the methods section you will find suggestions. Set of Methods 99
TRAMP – Transnational Mobility of Older People in Europe 100 Part II Communication In spite of existing language or age barriers, communication should develop between hosts and guests and younger and older people. Whoever has set himself this target, should make sure in the preparatory stage of the exchange that the time schedule is not too tight meaning that not every afternoon and evening is filled with an activity. The initiation of communication under these presuppositions needs time, but nevertheless a well-prepared frame. On the pilot projects it could be seen clearly that left alone the participants would always gather in national groups in order to avoid the difficulties in using a foreign language, only few would take the initiative. The hosts felt responsible for the guests’ comfort and tried to initiate contact with the members of the other group. The guests however were much more reserved even within their groups. Here the coordinators might guide the participants in a subtle way. In the methods section you will find suggestions.
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