The Research of the Factors Affecting the New Immigrant Mothers‎' ‎Chinese Reading Ability and Their Children‎'‎s Chinese Language Arts

• Main Authors: Pai Chinglu, 白青琉
• Other Authors: Hsin-Tzu（Tommy）Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20287934300827863514

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 華語文教學碩士學位學程 === 103 === Abstract Due to the trend of globalization, and the changing social patterns in Taiwan, many marriageable men, whose social statuses are lower, are not easy to find spouses. For this reason, they turn to seek marriage partners in Southeast Asia; therefore, the women of Southeast Asia come to Taiwan through marriage and generate new generation. Obviously, these new immigrants’ Chinese language skills, particularly the reading capacity, are inferior to the local mothers’. Thus, we want to investigate whether the inferiority of their language skills have impacts on their children's learning, especially in the Chinese language. This study, based on new immigrants’ backgrounds, reading ability, and their children’s Chinese language scores, was designed to make correlation analyses. The purposes of this study are as follows:1. Understand the correlations between the new immigrant mothers’ reading ability, and their family backgrounds together with their socio-economic statuses.2. Comprehend the correlations between the new immigrants’ primary school children’s Chinese language scores, and their family backgrounds together with the socio-economic statuses and genders.3. Learn the influential relationships among new immigrants reading ability, their family background and socioeconomic statuses, and Chinese language scores of their children in primary schools.The subjects of this study come from new immigrant mothers and their children. The new immigrant mothers from five primary schools—two from northern part of Taiwan, three from central southern part—and primary school children from northern part participated in this study. The instruments adopted in this study included TOCFL and questionnaires. TOCFL was used to evaluate the reading abilities of new immigrant mothers from Southeast Asian. Questionnaires were adopted to investigate new immigrant’s family backgrounds, and their socio-economic statuses. The analyses of new immigrant mother’s reading abilities and their children’s Mandarin grades were conducted by SPSS 18 statistical software package. After descriptive statistics were computed, reliability as a measure of internal consistency was calculated. From the study we find that there is no correlation between the reading ability of New immigrate mothers and their children’s Chinese language scores. On the other hand, we also find that new immigrant children’s Chinese language scores can be predicted via their family backgrounds and their mother’s reading abilities, but the results of the prediction are not significant. Keywords: New Immigrants, Reading Ability, Chinese Language