The purpose of this study was to explore foreign spouse children¡¦s mandarin capability, learning attitudes and social interactions, and analyzed the significant differences and predictors of their mandarin capability, learning attitudes and social interactions
We conducted a purposive sampling selection to recruit 335 foreign spouse children who are 3rd to 6th graders in Kaohsiung city. All participants completed three scales of ¡§Mandarin Capability Scale¡¨, ¡§Learning Attitude Scale¡¨ and ¡§Interpersonal Relationships Scale¡¨ that developed by the investigator. In addition, 6 children with the highest total scores and the other 6 children with the lowest total scores on the three scales were interviewed for triangulation and consolidation of quantitative results. Descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson¡¦s product-moment correlation, and multiple stepwise regression analysis were used to assess the similarities and differences among groups. The initial findings were as follows:
1. Children came from families of higher education parents presented significantly higher Mandarin capability than these children came from families of lower education parents.
2. Children came from democratic parenting practice presented significantly higher mandarin capability scores than those children with permissive parenting practices.
3. Younger children¡¦s learning attitudes scores were significantly higher than the elder children.
4. Children came from families of higher education parents presented significantly higher learning attitudes scores than those children came from families of lower education parents.
5.Girls¡¦ interpersonal relationships scores were significantly higher than those of the boys.
6. Children came from families of higher education parents presented significantly higher interpersonal relationships scores than those children came from families of lower education parents.
7. Children came from democratic parenting practice presented significantly higher scores on the dimension of ¡§interaction with family members¡¨ than those children with authoritarian parenting practice.
8. There were significantly positive correlations among children¡¦s Mandarin capability, learning attitude and interpersonal relationships.
9. The significant predictors of children¡¦s learning attitude scores were ¡§listening comprehension¡¨, ¡§grammar rhetorical ability¡¨, ¡§language use ability¡¨ and ¡§language expression ability¡¨ .
10. The significant predictors of children¡¦s interpersonal relationships scores were ¡§listening comprehension¡¨, ¡§language use ability¡¨ and ¡§language expression ability¡¨ .
Recommendation from research results were suggested to further study of foreign spouses children¡¦s Mandarin capability, learning attitudes and social interactions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0821112-113622 |
| Date | 21 August 2012 |
| Creators | Thi, Nguyen |
| Contributors | Der-Long Fang, Zuway-R, Hong, Huann-shyang Lin |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0821112-113622 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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