You look familiar … but what’s your name? Word learning in Singaporean older adults

• Main Author: Tan, Justina Yu Han
• Other Authors: Alice Hiu Dan Chan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Language acquisition
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76554
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Although cognition and memory has been shown to decline with age, age-related disparities in performance may be mediated by group-appropriate learning methods. As such, understanding how words are learnt by older adults can be useful for developing language learning techniques for the aged populatio...