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Title
Narrative development of school children : studies from multilingual families in Taiwan / Shin-Mei Kao.
ISBN
9789812871916 (electronic book)
9812871918 (electronic book)
9789812871909
Published
Singapore ; New York : Springer, [2015]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-287-191-6 doi
Call Number
P118
Dewey Decimal Classification
401/.93
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 22, 2014).
Series
SpringerBriefs in education.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789812871909
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2. Multilingual Families and Their Children in Taiwan
Chapter 3. Narrative Development of Children
Chapter 4. Methods of Eliciting and Measuring Children's Narratives
Chapter 5. The Impacts of Family Languages, Task Types, and Elicitation Modes on Children's Narratives
Chapter 6. The Narrative Development of School Children in Taiwan
Chapter 7. Classroom Ideas for Developing and Evaluating Children's Narratives.
