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ERIC Number: EJ956805
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Mar
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0023-8333
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Relearning in the Elderly: Age-Related Effects on the Size of Savings
van der Hoeven, Nienke; de Bot, Kees
Language Learning, v62 n1 p42-67 Mar 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 from a questionnaire on contact with French and a working-memory test showed that neither diminished language contact nor age-related decline in working memory can be seen as single factors explaining differences between learning and relearning. The decline in older adults' ability to learn new lexical information is discussed in terms of theories explaining age-related memory deficits and conceived of as an age-related deficiency to form associations between unrelated concepts.
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Language: English
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