Language Teaching and the Older Adult (eBook)

The Significance of Experience

Danya Ramírez Gómez (Autor)

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2016
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78309-631-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book focuses on issues regarding the learning of a foreign language in older adults (aged 60 and over). It details a multidisciplinary study on Japanese older learners of Spanish and discusses the influence of learning experiences on vocabulary learning strategy use. It also proposes concrete techniques for teachers of older learners.

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The aging of the population and the increasing number of older adults pursuing foreign language courses call for a greater understanding of the ways in which these individuals learn foreign languages. This book offers a pioneering contribution to the literature on foreign language education for older adults (aged 60 and over), termed foreign language geragogy. It details an empirical, multidisciplinary study on Japanese older learners of Spanish and focuses on the influence of learning experiences on vocabulary learning strategy use. It discusses the constraints that preconceptions impose on learners, researchers, instructors and administrators, and it offers a set of practical recommendations for foreign language activities for elderly individuals. It also introduces the notion of 'learner re-training', an instructional mechanism that contributes to older learners' self-acknowledgment and autonomy development in foreign language learning. The book is directed at teachers and trainee teachers of foreign languages to older adults, and also at education professionals and researchers in the field of foreign language learning in general.

Autor

lt;p>Danya Ramírez Gómez has a PhD in Linguistics and Language Sciences and has over 10 years of experience working with older adults. She is a member of the Kobe Project on Language Science and L2 Acquisition at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, and her areas of research include foreign language geragogy and the introduction of notions of theoretical linguistics in the foreign language classroom.

Inhalt

A Note to the Reader

Acronyms

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Characteristics of the Older Learner: Whom are we Teaching?

Chapter 3. Experience, Foreign Language Learning and the Third Age: The Case of Japanese Older Learners of Spanish

Chapter 4. Toward a Foreign Language Geragogy: Part I: Lifelong Learning and Education for Older Adults

Chapter 5. Toward a Foreign Language Geragogy: Part II: Learner Re-Training

Chapter 6. Toward A Foreign Language Geragogy: Part III: The Foreign Language Lesson

Chapter 7. Recapitulation and Conclusions

Bibliography

Appendix

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Second Language Acquisition
• Reihe/Serie: Second Language Acquisition
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: age and language learning • Foreign language learning • Foreign language teaching methodology • Geragogy • language strategies • Older adults • Older learners • Second Language acquisition • SLA • Vocab learning strategies • Vocabulary learning strategy use
• ISBN-10: 1-78309-631-4 / 1783096314
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78309-631-2 / 9781783096312