Learning languages is not only useful for the quality of life of the elderly and their active participation in society, but it also has an important role in stimulating and maintaining cognitive resources, increasing cognitive reserves and countering their decline favouring the development of compensation processes. From this point of view learning languages in old age is not only possible but it's desirable. All this justifies a FL geragogic model based on the idea that education must respect teaching methods principles specially if aimed to elders. Seeing as memory is made up of different processes which interact each other affecting several brain areas, there is no unitary aging of memory in the elderly. Some types of memory are very sensitive to aging, while others are preserved very well and show no signs of impairment. Then, from the point of view of language education of the elderly, it is necessary to know the different features of the aging of memory in order to prepare teaching activities and educational paths that take into account the specific characteristics and changes that affects memory over the years.
Memoria, emozioni, ricordi nell'invecchiamento. Implicazioni per l'educazione linguistica degli anziani
Mario Cardona
2023-01-01
Abstract
Learning languages is not only useful for the quality of life of the elderly and their active participation in society, but it also has an important role in stimulating and maintaining cognitive resources, increasing cognitive reserves and countering their decline favouring the development of compensation processes. From this point of view learning languages in old age is not only possible but it's desirable. All this justifies a FL geragogic model based on the idea that education must respect teaching methods principles specially if aimed to elders. Seeing as memory is made up of different processes which interact each other affecting several brain areas, there is no unitary aging of memory in the elderly. Some types of memory are very sensitive to aging, while others are preserved very well and show no signs of impairment. Then, from the point of view of language education of the elderly, it is necessary to know the different features of the aging of memory in order to prepare teaching activities and educational paths that take into account the specific characteristics and changes that affects memory over the years.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
