The Analysis of Local Language Instruction
formation and Interviews of Implemental
Situations
Yao-Ming Wu How-Meei Ferng
Abstract
This study aims to explore the formative process of local language instruction policy of Nine-year Integrated Curriculum in junior high and elementary schools. The researcher interviewed ten administrators and schoolteachers, who participated in local language instruction to understand implemental situations and experienced problems. The strategies of solution were recommended for references for future implementation of local language instruction.
To attain the study purposes, the study adopted methods of document analysis and interviews. From the analysis of official documents of Nine-year Integrated Curriculum Consideration Conference and teaching strategies of local language instruction formation, the researcher discovered that: (1) “The mother tongue is formally called local language”: it is a method and means to promote non-mother tongue group to recognize the language culture in Taiwan. (2) Language policy: from mono-language of Mandarin to multiple language instruction. (3) Curriculum allocation: There is one period of class of local language instruction each week. Students from first to sixth grade should take one from three courses of Taiwanese, Hakkanese, and aboriginal languages. (4) When to learn phonetic symbols: basically, it is proper to instruct phonetic symbols in the third grade at first stage.
integrated instruction in all learning fields to solve the unsettled resources of teachers. It is more effective for local language instruction to construct an environment of mother tongue. Finally, the researcher explored the difficulties of local language evaluation and proposed solving strategies for references of future advance of local language instruction.
Key words: Nine-year Integrated Curriculum, local language instruction, and language policy
Yao-Ming Wu: Teacher, Lin-Luo Elementary School
Doctoral Graduate Student, Department of Elementary Education, National Chia-yi University
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