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Can memory training positively affect the skills of learning a foreign language and support learning English by older students?
Can memory training positively affect the skills of learning a foreign language and support learning English by older students?

Author(s): Jacek Gulanowski, Agata Kozak
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
Keywords: lifelong learning; adult education; third age; senior students; memory training; English learning

Summary/Abstract: The experiment covered in this paper was conducted from November 2011 until February 2012 in the University of Third Age at the University of Wrocław in Poland as a part of the Third Age and New Technologies (TANT) project which was realised as a Grundtvig partnership programme. The aim of the experiment was to determine whether memory training can positively affect learning a foreign language (English) by senior students.

  • Issue Year: 3/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English