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

 AGATA KOZAK

agata22kozak@gmail.com

University of Wrocław, Poland


JACEK GULANOWSKI

jacek.gulanowski@gmail.com

University of Wrocław, Poland

 

Abstract:

 The experiment covered in this paper was conducted from November 2011 until Febru-ary 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  by senior students.

 

Key words:

lifelong learning, adult education, third age, senior students, memory training, English learning 

 

  DOI: 10.15503/jecs20122-89-98

 

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