Tercera edad: un buen momento para aprender una lengua extranjera

Abstract

The similarity between Portuguese and Spanish languages makes them very similar and takes the concept that studying Spanish is very easy, but when faced with the foreign language many Brazilian students change this concept and end up speaking the "portunhol", due to linguistic and pragmatic interference. The objective of this work is to verify the teaching process of the Spanish to the Unatianos, who are the elderly people linked to the extension project of the Open University of the Third Age (UNATI) of the Center-West State University at Guarapuava (UNICENTRO), which offers various modalities from physical activities such as Hydrotherapy, TAI-CHI, Sports, Games in the CEDETEG Sports Gym, as well as social activities such as the Golden Autumn Dance Group, which performs Olhar de professor, Ponta Grossa, 18(1): 11-19, 2015. Disponvel em <http: