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Narrative Development of School Children

Studies from Multilingual Families in Taiwan

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Shin-Mei Kao

    1. Dept of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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  • Describes how different narrative tasks are conducted and analyzed
  • Proposes a new analytical approach for child narrative research
  • A handy guideline for school teachers to adopt the research tasks in their classrooms to help children of different grades
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Multilingual Families and Their Children in Taiwan

    • Shin-Mei Kao
    Pages 1-9

  3. Language Development and Cultural Identity of Children from Multilingual Families in Taiwan

    • Shin-Mei Kao
    Pages 11-31

  4. Narrative Development of Children

    • Shin-Mei Kao
    Pages 33-51

  5. Methods of Eliciting and Measuring Children’s Narratives

    • Kao Shin-Mei
    Pages 53-64

  6. Investigating the Oral and Written Narrative Development of Taiwanese Children: Methodology

    • Shin-Mei Kao
    Pages 65-81

  7. Investigating the Oral and Written Narrative Development of Taiwanese Children: Results

    • Shin-Mei Kao
    Pages 83-113

  8. Classroom Ideas for Developing and Evaluating Children’s Narratives

    • Shin-Mei Kao
    Pages 115-125

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 127-129
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Shin-Mei Kao

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Narrative Development of School Children

  • Book Subtitle: Studies from Multilingual Families in Taiwan

  • Authors: Shin-Mei Kao

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-191-6

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-287-190-9Published: 22 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-191-6Published: 09 September 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2211-1921

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 129

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Early Childhood Education, Applied Linguistics

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