ERIC Number: EJ1425255
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Publication Date: 2024-Aug
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Enhancing Foreign Language Learning Approaches to Promote Healthy Aging: A Systematic Review
Blanka Klimova; Cecília de Paula Nascimento e Silva
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, v53 Article 48 2024
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the best approaches to teaching a foreign language to older people to help them achieve the desired results and explore their benefits. This review strictly follows the PRISMA methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analyses to identify the core experimental studies that deal with the topic of foreign language learning approaches among the older generations. Altogether eight studies detected were included in the systematic review. The available sources were found in Web of Science and Scopus. The findings indicate that foreign language learning can promote seniors' welfare and successful aging despite their learning outcomes, which means that the key benefit for third-age foreign language learners while learning a foreign language is not the achieved proficiency level, but the feeling of subjective satisfaction. This can be a good incentive to achieve better learning outcomes, provided that learners have been offered a pleasant and safe learning environment, using suitable learning approaches during which they can build on their acquired knowledge and experience, as well as discuss the topics they are interested in. Thus, foreign language teachers play an important part in seniors' educational process because their teaching methods and materials when adapted to the elderly's educational needs can have a positive impact on the maintenance and possibly, enhancement of the older people's cognitive functions and on the improvement of their mental activity, which consequently maintains their healthy aging.
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Aging (Individuals), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Best Practices, Older Adults, Meta Analysis, Research Reports, Databases, Language Proficiency, Educational Benefits, Outcomes of Education, Learning Experience, Cognitive Ability, Health
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