@inproceedings{2bd014ce31d04b63bc7330d95ad390a3,
title = "English education for the elderly in Hong Kong",
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.",
keywords = "Active aging, English education, Motivation, Learning styles, Elder speak",
author = "Di ZOU and WANG, {Fu Lee} and Haoran XIE and Tak-lam WONG",
note = "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).; 1st International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2016 ; Conference date: 26-10-2016 Through 29-10-2016",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_31",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319528359",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing AG",
pages = "306--310",
editor = "Ting-Ting WU and GENNARI, {Rosella } and HUANG, {Yueh-Min } and XIE, {Haoran } and CAO, {Yiwei }",
booktitle = "Emerging Technologies for Education : First International Symposium, SETE 2016 held in conjunction with ICWL 2016, Rome, Italy, October 26–29, 2016, revised selected papers",
address = "Switzerland",
}