Abstract
Although Hong Kong government has done a great job in various areas for active aging such as social security, residential care services, community care and support systems, the English education for elders is a weak point. This paper analyzes the current situation of English education for elders in Hong Kong from four perspectives: barriers, motivations, styles and methods of English learning for elders. Suggestions, possible solutions and necessary actions are also proposed accordingly.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Cimermanova, I.: Vek, vyber metody a uloha ucitela. In: Pongo, S., Pokrivcak, A. (eds.) Teaching Foreign Langauges to Adults, pp. 24–29. UKF, Nitra (2000)
Coulmas, F.: Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers’ Choices. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2013)
Fleming, N., Baume, D.: Learning styles again: VARKing up the right tree! Educ. Dev. 7(4), 4 (2006)
Harmer, J.: The Practice of English Language Teaching. London/New York (1991)
Határ, C., Grofčíková, S.: Foreign language education of seniors. J. Lang Cult. Educ. 4(1), 110–123 (2016)
Jamieson, A.: Higher education in study in later life: what is the point? Ageing. Soc. 27, 363–384 (2007)
Mitterlechner, Ch.: Staroba neznamena konniec. In: Socioterapia, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 8–10 (2012). http://www.socioterapia.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Socioterapia_4_2012.pdf
Petřková, A., Čornaničová, R.: Gerontagogika: Úvod do teorie a praxe edukace seniorů. Univerzita Palackého, Czech Republic (2004)
Phillipson, C., Ogg, J.: Active ageing and universities: engaging older learners (2010)
Pollard, E., Bates, P., Hunt, W., Bellis, A.: University is Not Just for Young People: Working Adults’ Perceptions of and Orientation to Higher Education. Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills, London (2008)
Prusakova, V.: Teoreticke vychodiska analyzy vzdelavacich potrieb dospelych. In: Prusakova, V. et al. (ed.), Analyza vzdelavacich potrieb dospelych. Eoreticke vychodiska, pp. 13– 44, Banska Bystrica: UMB
Schleppegrell, M.: The Older Language Learner (1987)
Slowey, M.: Age is just a number? Rethinking learning over the lifecourse. Ageing Horizons 2008(8), 22–30 (2008)
Tkacikova, M.: Basic principles of teaching foreign language to adults. In: Pongo, S., Pokrivcak, A. (eds.) Teaching Foreign Langauges to Adults, pp. 24–29. UKF, Nitra (2000)
Xie, H., Zou, D., Lau, R.Y., Wang, F.L., Wong, T.L.: Generating incidental word-learning tasks via topic-based and load-based profiles. IEEE Multimedia 23(1), 60–70 (2016)
Zou, D.: Vocabulary acquisition through cloze exercises, sentence-writing and composition-writing: extending the evaluation component of the involvement load hypothesis. Lang. Teach. Res. (2016). 1362168816652418
Zou, D., Xie, H., Li, Q., Wang, F.L., Chen, W.: The load-based learner profile for incidental word learning task generation. In: Popescu, E., Lau, Rynson, W.,H., Pata, K., Leung, H., Laanpere, M. (eds.) ICWL 2014. LNCS, vol. 8613, pp. 190–200. Springer, Heidelberg (2014). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09635-3_21
Zou, D., Xie, H., Wang, F.L., Wong, T.-L., Wu, Q.: Investigating the effectiveness of the uses of electronic and paper-based dictionaries in promoting incidental word learning. In: Cheung, S.K.S., Kwok, L.-f., Yang, H., Fong, J., Kwan, R. (eds.) ICHL 2015. LNCS, vol. 9167, pp. 59–69. Springer, Heidelberg (2015). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20621-9_5
Acknowledgement
The work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (UGC/FDS11/E06/14).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Zou, D., Wang, F.L., Xie, H., Wong, TL. (2017). English Education for the Elderly in Hong Kong. In: Wu, TT., Gennari, R., Huang, YM., Xie, H., Cao, Y. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_31
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_31
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-52835-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-52836-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)