題名: A Comparison of Language Use and Attitude among the immigrants in Taiwan:Southeast Asia ?brides? and Japanese spouses in Tainan
作者: 陳麗君
貢獻者: 國立成功大學
關鍵詞: language use;foreign bride;language proficiency;social context 日期: 2007-12-07
上傳時間: 2009-12-10T02:30:33Z 出版者: 亞洲大學外國語文學系
摘要: In Taiwan, since laborers and spouses from Southeast Asia have been dramatically grown, the demographic characteristics and the linguistic ecology have seriously changed during the past decade. According to the Taiwanese Ministry of Interior (2006), the population of foreigner increased 1.6 times from 1997 to 2006. Addition, 12.5% newborns in 2002 were the offspring of such ?foreign brides?. It occupied from Southeast Asia that the top five populations of foreigner spouses marriage with Taiwanese, whose are mostly female immigrated by commercial marriage. In the view points of sociology and educational psychology, it was point out by many previous reports about Southeast Asia that the language and mental development of ?foreign bride?s?
children were sometime delay. Beside, the population of Japanese spouses marriage with Taiwanese are 6th number, and the sex ratio is comparable. The main purposes of the present study were to compare the language proficiency, language use and language transmission attitudes for their second generations with the spouses from Southeast Asia and Japan, and to discuss about the relationship between the social context of the spouses in Taiwan and their ethnic language
maintenance.Data was collected with questionnaires and conversation records to Taiwanese-Japanese couple in Tainan. According to Chen SC et. Al 2007., urban vs. rural location factors have very little effect on such analysis. The results show that the Japanese spouses are able to use code-switching functionary as a communication strategy and to transmit mother tongue across generations. Inversely, since the Southeast Asia brides use only Taiwan language, except the seldom chance to talk with same province, it is difficult to transmit the mother tongue to their children. They were forced to use Taiwan language to communicate with their children by the social context, and it is likely the reason that their second generations are below average in the language
and mental abilities. From the result of language proficiency and
attitude, the phenomena similar to diglossia was observed in exogamic family. Most Taiwanese and Japanese couples study each other?s languages, however, only ?foreign brides? study Mandarin in most Taiwanese and Southeast Asia couples. It was pointed out that the second generations of ?foreign bride? loose their self-confidence and despise their mother (Chen PZ et. al. 2003). To cultivate next-
generations with healthy mind and national identity, we need not only to teach Mandarin to ?foreign bride?, but also to encourage national
conscious for adaptation to global and pluralistic society.
