Enhancing Cognitive Performance of Healthy Czech Seniors through Non-Native Language Learning—A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11150/20:10418372 RIV/00179906:_____/20:10418372

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/9/573/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/9/573/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10090573" target="_blank" >10.3390/brainsci10090573</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Enhancing Cognitive Performance of Healthy Czech Seniors through Non-Native Language Learning—A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study

Original language description

The aim of this article is to discuss the effect of learning a non-native language on the enhancement of cognitive performance in healthy native Czech elderly. In addition, special emphasis is put on a qualitative assessment. 42 Czech cognitively unimpaired seniors were enrolled into the study. These were then divided into an experimental group (i.e. 20 healthy elderly studied English as a non-native language for three months), and a passive control group (22 healthy elderly, who did not undergo any non-native language intervention).The main outcome measures included Montreal Cognitive Assessment, statistical processing of the data and a qualitative content analysis. The results indicate that the cognitive performance of the intervention group did not differ from the control group. Therefore, no cognitive enhancement through non-native language learning was achieved. However, the findings of the qualitative analysis show that such non-native language learning with the peers of the same age is especially beneficial for the overall well-being of healthy seniors, especially as fare as their social networks are concerned. Furthermore, participant’s subjective feelings indicate that foreign language learning also contributes to acquiring new English words and phrases. However, since there are very few empirical studies on this research topic, further research is needed in order to confirm or refute the present research findings on the enhancement of cognitive performance through non-native language learning in healthy seniors.

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

50103 - Cognitive sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Brain sciences

ISSN

2076-3425

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

"Article Number: 573"

UT code for WoS article

000580148600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85089669433