Psychological age-specific peculiarities and basic psychological functions of adult students
Review of methodological, psychological, psycholinguistic literature, devoted to the issue of teaching foreign language for adults, let us make a conclusion about its incomplete readiness. Researches confirm that age itself doesn't decrease students' abilities to possess knowledge and intellectual skills. Furthermore, in process of long-lasting studying, grown-ups' common and special capabilities keep improving, becoming learning abilities. Improvement of such functions as thinking, memory and attention of grown-ups are explained, in the first place, by education, life experience, training and industrious activities.