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Gal, Ilona – Esperanto Documents, 1978
Research has indicated that the elderly retain the ability to learn, and specifically to learn new languages. Furthermore, the increasingly greater proportion of old people in the population demands that their need for continued intellectual stimulation be met. In the absence of explicit motives for learning an ethnic language, Esperanto is a good…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Artificial Languages, Educational Gerontology