Position of the elderly in Singapore LL : literacy assessment of the Singaporean elderly
Past researches show that the elderly face several problems living in urban areas, including problems with physical infrastructure and inaccessible information. In Singapore, elderly care policies involve the improvement of physical infrastructure, but the lack of information has caused underutiliza...
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| author | Soh, Yu Bin. |
| author2 | Frantisek Kratochvil |
| author_facet | Frantisek Kratochvil Soh, Yu Bin. |
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| description | Past researches show that the elderly face several problems living in urban areas, including problems with physical infrastructure and inaccessible information. In Singapore, elderly care policies involve the improvement of physical infrastructure, but the lack of information has caused underutilization of policies implemented and inconvenience to the elderly. A way to solve this problem is by improving information accessibility. This study aims to find out the problems illiterate Singaporean elderly face in understanding the written messages on signs around them. However, the paper takes the assumption that classification of literacy based only ‘literate’ or ‘illiterate’ is insufficient. Therefore, in conjunction with the study on understanding LL by the Singaporean elderly, a literacy test incorporating the understanding of signs is designed. An interview using the literacy test carried out on 25 illiterate elderly shows that most of them do not understand written words on signs and had to rely on familiarity with signs to help them understand the messages conveyed better |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/957432021-12-20T03:34:40Z Position of the elderly in Singapore LL : literacy assessment of the Singaporean elderly Soh, Yu Bin. Frantisek Kratochvil School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics Past researches show that the elderly face several problems living in urban areas, including problems with physical infrastructure and inaccessible information. In Singapore, elderly care policies involve the improvement of physical infrastructure, but the lack of information has caused underutilization of policies implemented and inconvenience to the elderly. A way to solve this problem is by improving information accessibility. This study aims to find out the problems illiterate Singaporean elderly face in understanding the written messages on signs around them. However, the paper takes the assumption that classification of literacy based only ‘literate’ or ‘illiterate’ is insufficient. Therefore, in conjunction with the study on understanding LL by the Singaporean elderly, a literacy test incorporating the understanding of signs is designed. An interview using the literacy test carried out on 25 illiterate elderly shows that most of them do not understand written words on signs and had to rely on familiarity with signs to help them understand the messages conveyed better Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies 2013-04-02T03:24:44Z 2019-12-06T19:20:39Z 2013-04-02T03:24:44Z 2019-12-06T19:20:39Z 2012 2012 Final Year Project (FYP) Soh, Y. B. (2012). Position of the elderly in Singapore LL : literacy assessment of the Singaporean elderly. Final year project report, Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95743 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9432 en Nanyang Technological University 112 p. application/pdf |
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| title | Position of the elderly in Singapore LL : literacy assessment of the Singaporean elderly |
| title_full | Position of the elderly in Singapore LL : literacy assessment of the Singaporean elderly |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Position of the elderly in Singapore LL : literacy assessment of the Singaporean elderly |
| title_short | Position of the elderly in Singapore LL : literacy assessment of the Singaporean elderly |
| title_sort | position of the elderly in singapore ll literacy assessment of the singaporean elderly |
| topic | DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics |
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