Language Learning Later in Life explores how acquiring a new language can promote healthy aging. Authored by leading experts in applied linguistics, education, and aging studies, this comprehensive volume investigates the profound cognitive and psychosocial benefits of language learning for older adults, set against the urgent realities of a rapidly aging global population. Through a blend of empirical research, qualitative analyses, and compelling case studies, the book reveals how language learning can stimulate memory, enhance cognitive function, and foster motivation and resilience. It also delves into the social rewards of language acquisition, from increased participation and intercultural engagement to combating loneliness and reducing isolation. Addressing critical challenges such as neurodegenerative diseases and depression, Language Learning Later in Life champions proactive strategies for healthy aging, offering practical guidance on effective teaching methodologies and illuminating the unique learning journeys of older adults. A vital resource for researchers, educators, and policymakers, this book demonstrates how lifelong language learning can enrich lives and promote well-being among an aging society.
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Mary Katherine Wainwright's poems, like the taste of salt, are at once familiar and strange. They collect themselves like photographs in a family album. Inside this poetry collection are snapshots of travel adventures from New York to Italy, France, and Spain yet always returning to family memories of growing up in North Florida. A feminine presence presides over these poems-a woman listening to her own life and the lives of those she meets along the way, confronting the palpable presence of absence, memory and loss, and the sugar and salt of our deepest longings.
Thirteen-year-old Luke Silvester is on a school trip with his Italian language class from Micklemarsh High School. They're staying in Caravalla, normally a small wine-producing town in the north of Italy, but now all the vineyards are blighted. Except one. The one owned by Riccardo and Serena Valli and their 11-year-old daughter, Marcy, with whom Luke is staying. There are rumours in the superstitious town that Riccardo has cast a spell to ruin everyone else's crops. Luke's firm belief that magic doesn't exist is called increasingly into question as strange things keep happening around him. He finally has to accept magic is real when he witnesses a human being become an owl and fly off into the night. He too wants to soar off into the night, and gulps down leftover magic potion. But it's not just Luke who gets transformed; his entire school trip - and his entire life - change too. Just when it seems to Luke and his new friend, Marcy, that all hope of changing him back is lost, Marcy spots one last chance to put things right. "A well written story, full of intrigue and twists, and fun to read." Leona Deakin, author of Gone and Lost. ***All author royalties from Amazon sales of The Exchange Trip from 9-Sep-2020 are donated to Yorkshire Cancer Research which helps people avoid and survive cancer. Yorkshire people are more likely to get cancer and more likely to die from it than most other counties in England. The YCR's work aims to save 2,000 more people each year. It is a registered charity No 516898 (England and Wales).***
Radical-Mechanics of Animal Locomotion - With Remarks on the Setting-Up of Soldiers, Horse and Foot.... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
