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Peer reviewedBrandle, Maximilian – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1977
The different learning abilities of senior citizens and ways that older students can successfully maximize their learning effort in a class essentially designed for younger learners are discussed. Because of a regressed transformational drill behavior, the pedagogical hypothesis and the teaching strategy must de-emphasize a consistent audiolingual…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Audiolingual Skills, Language Instruction
Download full textWipf, Joseph Arnold – 1972
In order to gain some insight into the issue of optimum age for second language learning, the experiment described in this report was based on the negative hypothesis that there is no significant difference in the ability of randomly selected subjects, kindergarten through grade six, to imitate critical sounds and sound clusters embedded in words…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Applied Linguistics, Educational Experiments, Elementary Education
