Narrative Development of School Children Studies from Multilingual Families in Taiwan /

• Main Author: Kao, Shin-Mei (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Applied linguistics.; Child development.; Childhood Education.; Applied Linguistics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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 .