老年人外语学习的利益、动机和偏好。来自厄瓜多尔昆卡一项倡议的见解

Maskana Pub Date : 2016-11-07 DOI:10.18537/MSKN.07.01.03
Juan F. Mora, M. Abad
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本研究探讨了厄瓜多尔昆卡老年人对英语学习的看法和态度。共有151人(平均年龄70.3岁)回答了一份包含50个项目的问卷。通过因子回归、多元回归和聚类分析,探讨老年人在晚年学习外语的认知、动机和抱负的维度及其与参与群体社会人口统计学特征的关系。研究结果表明,学习外语的兴趣是基于这样一种观念,即它能改善一个人的社会交往、个人发展、思维和记忆的功能和维护,它能激活并使生活更有活力。结果显示,参与者参加英语语言课程的主要动机与在日常生活中使用这门语言的潜力增加以及对英语文本的深刻阅读能力有关。课程的持续时间和获得证书是决定因素,并使参与者根据他们的喜好分组,就英语课程的实际设计而言。此外,年龄和学校水平是影响大多数参与者反应的激励变量。
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Perceived benefits, motivations and preferences for foreign language learning by older adults. Insights from an initiative in Cuenca, Ecuador
This study explores the perceptions and attitudes of older adults from Cuenca, Ecuador, towards English language learning. A total of 151 people (mean age 70.3 years) responded to a questionnaire consisting of 50 items. Factor, multiple regression and cluster analysis were conducted with the objective to define the dimensions underlying older adults’ perceptions, motivations, and ambitions to learn later in life a foreign language and their relation to the socio-demographic characteristics of the participating group. Findings suggest that the interest to study a foreign language is based on the perceptions that it improves a person’s social interaction, personal development, functioning and maintenance of mind and memory, and it activates and makes life more dynamic. Results revealed that the participants’ main motivation to take an English language course is related to the increased potential of using this language in daily life and the ability of insightful reading of English texts. The duration of the course and the attainment of a certificate were determinant factors, and enabled the grouping of the participants according to their preferences with respect to the practical design of an English course. Furthermore, age and school level were found to be the motivating variables affecting most of the participants’ responses.
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