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An inspiring talk with Marina Gonzalez New oceans for managers: designing courses for older adults In this session Marina Gonzalez shares her thoughts and ideas about the challenges and different learnings from implementing foreign language courses for Older Adults at university. The speaker believes that developing a curriculum that applies critical foreign language geragogy (CFLG) and training teachers with an emphasis on emotions represent the issues such an innovative program should explore to satisfy the needs of this specific segment of the population.  Marina worked in different programmes at least for 5 years in univercity settings. And the issue of her talk is the present situation of that programmes. She described three concepts that she wanted to put into tention there. The concept of oceans (that comes from marketing) - when you reach new areas that have not been explored yet. You might think that all settings about teaching have been already described, s...