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van der Hoeven, Nienke; de Bot, Kees – Language Learning, 2012
This article reports on a study on learning new and relearning forgotten words of French as a foreign language in young (mean age 22.4), middle-aged (mean age 50.3), and elderly speakers (mean age 76.0). The three age groups performed similarly on relearning old words, but the younger learners were significantly better at learning new words. Data…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Age Differences, Short Term Memory, French

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