Third Age Learners of Foreign Languages /

People are increasingly reaching the so-called third age, a period when seniors search for a renewed purpose to life and spend time undertaking activities that they consider motivating, such as the learning of a foreign language. The study of language learning among aging populations has become a fa...

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Otros Autores: Bot, Kees de (Contribuidor), Derenowski, Marek (Contribuidor), Gabryś-Barker, Danuta (Contribuidor, Editor ), Giroud, Nathalie (Contribuidor), Green, David W. (Contribuidor), Grotek, Monika (Contribuidor), Keijzer, Merel (Contribuidor), Kliesch, Maria (Contribuidor), Meyer, Martin (Contribuidor), Mystkowska-Wiertelak, Anna (Contribuidor), Niżegorodcew, Anna (Contribuidor), Oxford, Rebecca L. (Contribuidor), Pawlak, Mirosław (Contribuidor), Pfenninger, Simone E. (Contribuidor), Piechurska-Kuciel, Ewa (Contribuidor), Pot, Anna (Contribuidor), Singleton, David (Contribuidor), Szyszka, Magdalena (Contribuidor), Ślęzak-Świat, Agnieszka (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2017]
Colección:Second Language Acquisition
Temas:
Language acquisition-Age factors.
Language and languages-Study and teaching.
Older people-Education.
Second language acquisition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching.
Age and language learning.
FL learning strategies of senior students.
Learning strategies for older students.
Older learmers.
SLA.
Senior students.
Teaching languages to seniors.
Third Age.
Third age universities.
Universities of the Third Age.
learning experiences.
teaching foreign languages.
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Sumario:People are increasingly reaching the so-called third age, a period when seniors search for a renewed purpose to life and spend time undertaking activities that they consider motivating, such as the learning of a foreign language. The study of language learning among aging populations has become a fast-growing area of research and this book is one of the first attempts to bring together what we know about this age group and their profiles as foreign language learners. Contributors to the volume discuss the issue from various psychological, neurological and pedagogical perspectives. Each of the chapters provides an updated theoretical background and offers some initial conclusions on the basis of original empirical studies carried out. Chapters challenge certain familiar preconceptions and assumptions about senior learners, offer the reader ideas for future research in this under-studied area and provide some practical advice for applying the proposals and solutions offered in real foreign language third-age classrooms.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9781783099412
9783110663129
9783110606706
Acceso:restricted access

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