Teaching English as a foreign language to older adult learners: a qualitative exploration of four perspectives

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03601277.2024.2312043?needAccess=true" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03601277.2024.2312043?needAccess=true</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03601277.2024.2312043" target="_blank" >10.1080/03601277.2024.2312043</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Teaching English as a foreign language to older adult learners: a qualitative exploration of four perspectives

Original language description

Older adult education is still under-researched, with many terminological ambiguities, clichés, and prejudices. Older adult teacher education and older adult English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education is rare. Many factors can influence EFL teachers of older adults’ teaching performance and its perception. Pre-service (presumably inexperienced U3A EFL teachers) and in-service teachers (experienced U3A EFL) were teaching EFL to selected older adults (aged from 64 to 75 years) at the Karkonosze University of Applied Sciences in Jelenia Góra, Poland, U3A. Their teaching Older adult education is still under-researched, with many terminological ambiguities, clichés, and prejudices. Older adult teacher education and older adult English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education is rare. Many facting performance factors list. By utilizing a critical foreign language geragogy and a strengths-based approach inspired by positive psychology, the research emphasized the role of general teaching experience and/or age-targeted teaching experience. And it led to validating the desirable teaching performance factors as factors that defined U3A EFL teaching performance as successful and positively evaluated by given older adult learners, i.e. on a small scale.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50300 - Education

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Educational Gerontology

ISSN

0360-1277

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

50

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001157606300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85184929574