Narrative Development of School Children: Studies from Multilingual Families in Taiwan

✍ Scribed by Shin-Mei Kao (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Singapur
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 131
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reports the current aspects of children from multilingual families in Taiwan and describes these children's perceptions towards their linguistic, academic, and social development from a survey study and a discourse analysis study. The discourse analysis study focuses on the narrative developments of children born to Southeast Asian mothers versus average Taiwanese children across four grade levels in the elementary school. This book is significant in four aspects: describing the children with multilingual family background qualitatively and quantitatively, including a wide range and a large number of participants, proposing new analytical approaches for child narrative research, and compiling applicable classroom activities based on of research findings. The cultural and linguistic background of the children described in this book may be of interest to researchers and educators not only in Chinese-speaking regions, but also in areas where the phenomenon of multilingual family is becoming common in the society.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction: Multilingual Families and Their Children in Taiwan....Pages 1-9
Language Development and Cultural Identity of Children from Multilingual Families in Taiwan....Pages 11-31
Narrative Development of Children....Pages 33-51
Methods of Eliciting and Measuring Children’s Narratives....Pages 53-64
Investigating the Oral and Written Narrative Development of Taiwanese Children: Methodology....Pages 65-81
Investigating the Oral and Written Narrative Development of Taiwanese Children: Results....Pages 83-113
Classroom Ideas for Developing and Evaluating Children’s Narratives....Pages 115-125
Back Matter....Pages 127-129

✦ Subjects

Childhood Education; Applied Linguistics