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.
| ISBN: | 9781783099405 |
| Publication date: | 18th December 2017 |
| Author: | Danuta Gabry?-Barker |
| Publisher: | Multilingual Matters an imprint of Channel View Publications Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | Second Language Acquisition |
| Genres: |
Language acquisition Age groups: the elderly |