Agata Słowik-Krogulec (ORCID: 0000-0002-5530-3880) is an assistant professor in the Department of Second Language Learning and Teaching at the Institute of English Studies. She completed her PhD on Older adult learners’ and their teachers’ subjective theories related to foreign language education in later life. She is an applied linguist, teacher trainer as well as a CELTA and DELTA qualified educator with more than ten years of experience in teaching various age groups, including learners at the age of 60 and older, at the University of the Third Age in Wrocław and in private language schools. Her research has been published in several journals, such as Anglica Wratislaviensia, Journal of Education, Culture and Society, or Contributions to General and Comparative Linguistics. Her main interests include Foreign Language Geragogy (FLG, i.e. Foreign Language Learning and Teaching to Older Adults), Lifelong Learning, Individual Learner Differences, as well as the Age Factor and Positive Psychology in SLA.

In the years 2017-2018 she was awarded three internal University grants that allowed her to research self-study books designed for seniors in Poland. As a result of this work, in 2018 she joined the grant that was funded by The National Centre for Research and Development in Poland (NCBR). The Project “University for older adults. New approach to adult education” (my transl.) won the first place (out of 211) in a competition aimed at improving the quality of Older Adult education – “Trzecia Misja Uczelni,” (“The Tird Mission of the University,” my transl.; No. POWR.03.01.00-IP.08-00-3MU/18; dates: 12.2018 – 06.2021; received funding: 1 000 550.15 PLN). The aim of the project was to create the first course book written specifically for Third Age learners that would address four key competences necessary in the process of lifelong learning (based on the “Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of Europe, 18 December 2006”). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the last phase of the project, i.e. testing the course book in the classroom, has not been completed.