Third Age Learners of Foreign Languages

Gabry-barker, Danut

ISBN 10: 1783099402 / ISBN 13: 9781783099405

Published by Channel View Publications Ltd, 2017

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2017. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Third Age Learners of Foreign Languages
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783099402
• ISBN 13: 9781783099405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Danuta Gabrys-Barker is Professor of English at the University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, where she lectures and supervises MA and PhD theses in applied linguistics and psycholinguistics, with a particular focus on second language acquisition and multilingualism. She has published numerous articles and books including The Affective Dimension in Second Language Acquisition (co-edited with Joanna Bielska, 2013) and Morphosyntactic Issues in Second Language Acquisition (2008).