O idoso e o aprendizado de uma nova língua: o descortinar de trocas sociais e afetivas

• Ano de defesa: 2005
• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Elizabeth Thomaz
• Orientador(a): Lopes, Ruth Gelehrter da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Gerontologia
• Departamento: Gerontologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Aprendizado; Língua estrangeira; Ressignificação; Idosos - Educação; Envelhecimento
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Elderly; Learning; Foreign language; Aging; New meaning
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12480

The aim of this research is to verify the concept of learning through the contact with elderly people that study a foreign language as well as to draw a profile of the kind of people who looks for this ty pe of learning; identify ing th eir conceptions about aging and investigating the importance of this process for them. Seven learners between the ages of 65 and 73 were selected. The methodology used was the qualitative research in which pilot instructions with partial open questions were elaborated. The interpretation of those answers leadto classifying them in term s of subjects. This m eans: well-being, personal lim itations, experience as a foreign language learners, daily habits, and expectati ons of how to take advantage of opportunities. In aging as in ot her stages of life, it is essential that the intellectual faculties be stimulated and kept active. In addition to this, it is important to draw the attention on the fact that the learning capacity of elderly people do not disappear if they are motivated. Carefully considering the learning of a foreign language is to think about an education that points out the interest of this segment. The results suggest that longevity as a process reveals social and affective exchanges. In such a case, this research shows the importance of learning a foreign language as having a new m eaning for the life of those elderly people. This all contributes to their well-being and keeps them communicating, integrated in the com munity and givesthem alternatives to failing ill. Learning of a foreign language inserts the person in a society as a citizen providing an education through which a new knowledge is encouraged without age limit and giving the elderly people the possibility to follow the transformations of the whole world