A Study on the Adaptation of New Immigrant Children from South-East Asia in Taipei City Elementary Schools

• Main Authors: Fang-I Hsiang, 向芳誼
• Other Authors: Tien-You Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74376080778813833494

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 教育行政與評鑑研究所 === 95 === The purpose of this study was to find out the adaptation of new immigrant children from South-East Asia to the elementary school in Taipei city and analyzed the differences of their academic achievement, interpersonal relationship, regular adjustment and self-concept according to their background during their adaptation to school. The samples of this study were based on the new immigrant children from South-East Asia at Taipei city public elementary school. “The Questionnaire of the Adaptation of New Immigrant Children from South-East Asia in Taipei City Elementary Schools” was used as study tool and purposive sampling was applied. The official effective samples of this study contained 196 subjects. All the data collected was analyzed by using average, standard deviation, t-test, and one-way ANOVA and etc. The results were as follows: 1. The overall adaptation to school and performance in academic achievement, interpersonal relationship, regular adjustment and self-concept of new immigrant children from South-East Asia in Taipei city showed positive outcome. And the performances of academic achievement and regular adjustment were better. 2. The gender of new immigrant children from South-East Asia in Taipei city did not cause significant difference in their overall adaptation to school. But girls performed better than boys in language arts, integrative activities, life curriculum, interpersonal relationship, regular adjustment and self-concept. 3. The new immigrant children from South-East Asia in Taipei city in different grades showed no significant difference in their overall adaptation to school, however, according to academic achievement, sixth graders performed better than forth graders in Health and Physical Education. 4. The level of education that the fathers of new immigrant children from South-East Asia in Taipei city received did not cause significant difference in their children’s overall adaptation to school and every dimension. 5. The level of education that the mothers of new immigrant children from South-East Asia in Taipei city received did not cause significant difference in their children’s overall adaptation to school and every dimension. However, children whose mothers were college (or above) educated performed better in language arts, integrative activities, health and physical education and life curriculum than those children whose mothers were less educated. Finally, based on the study results, suggestions were provided for education related administrations and researchers as references to further improvement of elementary school education or further proceeding of the related study.