Second language learning in older adults: Effects on brain structure and predictors of learning success

J Nilsson, R Berggren, B Garzón… - Frontiers in aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… Swedish translation accompanied the main text. The teacher-… Out of the 76 scanned
participants, no DTI was acquired from … in bilingual environments are necessary to achieve a level …

Cognitive benefits of learning additional languages in old adulthood? insights from an intensive longitudinal intervention study

M Kliesch, SE Pfenninger, M Wieling, E Stark… - Applied …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… this bias was included as a predictor in the second model and … the larger population of older
adult L2 learners, they also do … was predicted by prior multilingualism, so that we cannot rule …

Foreign language learning in older adults: Anatomical and cognitive markers of vocabulary learning success

MCM Fong, MKH Ma, JYT Chui, TST Law… - Frontiers in human …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… the findings on the bilingual advantage and learning-induced … used as the predictors of
language learning performance. … T2 and resting-state fMRI data were also acquired, but they …

Mobile-assisted language learning in older adults: Chances and challenges

C Puebla, T Fievet, M Tsopanidi, H Clahsen - ReCALL, 2022 - cambridge.org
… increasingly multilingual societies and may even reduce age-… the large number of predictors,
potential multicollinearity among … ; refreshing a previously acquired L2 seems simply easier. …

Learning and processing multiple languages: The more the easier?

J Festman - Language Learning, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… that could help multilinguals acquire new languages (eg, … predictor for bilingual children's
learning success of a third … Most studies in this section reported on a bilingual advantage …

Cognitive and socioaffective predictors of L2 microdevelopment in late adulthood: A longitudinal intervention study

M Kliesch, SE Pfenninger - The Modern Language Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
gaining traction in both the applied linguistics and cognitive study of multilingualism in older
age… are usually the ones acquired first, we extracted the most common 2,500 words from the …

Global and localized network characteristics of the resting brain predict and adapt to foreign language learning in older adults

M Kliesch, R Becker, A Hervais-Adelman - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
acquire their first language (L1) fast and effortlessly, whereas … that older adults commonly
show a slowing of the brain’s moststudy was to identify predictors and correlates of L2 learning

[PDF][PDF] Age meets multilingualism: Influence of starting age on L3 acquisition across different learner populations

SE Pfenninger - … acquisition: Age, proficiency and multilingualism, 2020 - library.oapen.org
… –are much stronger predictors than starting age for a range of FL … on the acquisition of an L3
in bilingual contexts shows that … a bilingual advantage in older adults but not younger adults. …

Multilingual boost vs. cognitive abilities: Testing two theories of multilingual language learning in a primary school context

R Berthele, I Udry - International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… We test whether a set of predictions based on a multilingual … knowledge acquired during
language learning are assumed … languages, and in terms of their suitability for the main

Linguistic dissimilarity increases age-related decline in adult language learning

JJ Schepens, RWNM van Hout… - … in Second Language …, 2023 - cambridge.org
learning a considerably dissimilar language at an older age … as well as all control predictors.
Specifically, we included … to account for the multilingual reality of the learners. Migrants from …