Enhancing Foreign Language Learning Approaches to Promote Healthy Aging: A Systematic Review

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-024-10088-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10936-024-10088-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Enhancing Foreign Language Learning Approaches to Promote Healthy Aging: A Systematic Review

Original language description

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&apos;s cognitive functions and on the improvement of their mental activity, which consequently maintains their healthy aging. © The Author(s) 2024.

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

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

ISSN

0090-6905

e-ISSN

1573-6555

Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

"Article number: 48"

UT code for WoS article

001227050000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85193497244