| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 臺灣語言與語文教育研究所 === 99 === Abstract
In this study, we measured the language production outcomes of a 6-year-old Hakka-Mandarin bilingual boy, during the period when his family changed his language environment by speaking Hakka mainly at home for 7 months. The boy used to live in a Mandarin-dominant environment. And his family deliberately changed the dominant language into Hakka since this study started.
The Hakka production samples of the boy were elicited by the story books, ‘three little pigs’ and ‘frog, where are you’. In order to compare his commands of Hakka with his commands of Mandarin, his Mandarin production samples were also collected, elicited by the same books. The boy was vedio-taped monthly when he was asked to tell the stories. His narrations were transcribed and analyzed with CHILDES.
There were several indexes we measured to evaluate the progress of his commands of Hakka during the 7 months. The indexes included the mean length of utterances (MLUs), numbers of different types he used, numbers of different word in each word type he used, numbers of diverse structures of the predicate phrases in his Hakka usages, numbers of code-switching words occurred in his Hakka utterances, and long pauses occurred when he used Hakka.
The results compared the monthly progress the boy made during the 7-month period, with the indexes mentioned above. And the suggestions to the families and to the schools which may aim to raise a Hakka-Mandarin child were made, based on the results found in the study in the end.
Key words: Hakka, bilingual, language environment, CHILDS
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