Developing motivation in the foreign language classroom among senior learners

• Authors: Derenowski Marek

Title variants

PL

Rozwijanie motywacji osób starszych w klasie językowej

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The world is aging and life expectancy is extending among world societies. These phenomena undoubtedly create new challenges and result in transformation of the world as we know it. One of the spheres that needs a new approach is education which has to adjust to senior learners who are over 55 years old. Lifelong learning is not a new concept, as it originates from ancient Greece. However, new type of students require new approach and modifications in the educational process. For senior learners education often has compensatory features, e.g. making up for missed opportunities; meeting people and maintaining or developing social contacts. Many seniors attend education in older age simply to have their brain stimulated. Furthermore, older learners may have already developed learning strategies that have served them well in other contexts. The article presents the concept of lifelong learning and selected issues related with senior education in foreign language learning context. The study included in the article aimed at investigating motivational and demotivational factors in senior education. The obtained results point to affective (e.g. anxiety, self-esteem) and social (e.g. opinion of other learners, public performance) factors as the dominating factors in motivational process.

Keywords

EN

senior; language learning; motivation; lifelong learning; senior education

PL

senior; uczenie się języka; motywacja; uczenie się przez całe życie; edukacja; seniorów

• Publisher: Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz – Instytut Technologii Eksploatacji, Radom
• Journal: Edukacja Ustawiczna Dorosłych
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 16-26

Contributors

author

Derenowski Marek

• Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa Konin

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ISSN

1507-6563