| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 幼兒教育學系研究所 === 100 === The purpose of this study is to present the practice of mother language course for new immigrant children in Taiwan. This research adopted qualitative research methods to explore how the mother language courses are practiced in primary schools. The data was collected from documents, including language courses projects and reports. Seven primary school teachers were interviewed on the issues of the practice of language courses and the difficulties. There were 38 primary schools conducted mother language courses during
The primary schools practiced the mother language course and their efficiency seldom related to the project goals. Furthermore, the primary schools seldom adopted regular checking systems to evaluate the efficiency of the mother language courses. However, the primary school teachers assumed that the mother language course would increase new immigrant children’s recognition towards their mothers’ countries. The mother language courses also enhance pupils’ understanding of Vietnamese culture. Some cases also illustrated the interactions between immigrant mothers and children increased.
The difficulties of the mother language courses would be: lacking professional teachers of mother languages, suitable teaching materials for primary school pupils, insufficient funding, and school human resources. The result also shows that some pupils, non-immigrant parents and school teachers did not support the mother language courses. Furthermore, the language courses were conducted under the mixed-age group from Year 1 to Year 6 and this increased a lot of teaching difficulties within class.
The suggestions include:
1.The government can assist the primary schools to develop suitable teaching materials and to train professional teachers of mother language. The mother language course can be considered to be incorporated into the native language courses in the primary schools.
2.The primary schools which conduct the mother language courses successfully can be a good example for other schools.
3.The evaluation of mother language courses is essential to make sure the conduction matches with the project goals.
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