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The Bilingualism Study Of A Pair Of Twins Between Chinese&Korean

Posted on:2014-04-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L X LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330425461714Subject:Chinese international education
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This study, through the use of naturalistic observation methods and naturalistic observation method, by the meticulous observation about the language acquisition of a pair of transnational marriage twin sisters in daily life, with comparing the difference on language acquisition between singletons and twins, aims at revealing the effect of bilingual teaching on the twin family.The data collection methods about the language acquisition process of twins are, written notebooks for handwritten records when they were12-28months old, and recorded the dialogue between them when they were32-52month old. The author recorded5-6times every week, and at the last, the audio materials totaled over120, and the total data amount is9.2GB. Therefore, due to the enough data, the article could be written truly and substantially.The frame work of the present study is as follows:the First Chapter states the meaning of the study, its methodology as well as its focus points and the difficulties anticipated and also offers a summary of the field related research works. The Second Chapter, by combining related theories, mainly records twins’language acquisition, by combining related theories, mainly records twins’language acquisition, also combined with the twins’living environment, their pronunciation, tone, listening, conversation and others, which form the argument resource of this paper. The Third Chapter mainly compares the advantages and disadvantages of twin sisters’bilingual learning between Chinese and Korean. Especially, compares the advantage and disadvantage between twins and children of the same age. The Fourth Chapter, through the use of the analysis of the survey results, obtains the differences and similarities of monolingual teaching and bilingual teaching, summarizes the social and cultural factors reflected by the results of the survey.In order to make it more persuasive, we used a questionnaire method to collect the data, a recording method to gather audio materials. One of the innovative points of this study is that, considering there are only very few foreign studies about bilingual teaching, especially about twins come from transnational marriage family.The author, after observing and getting to know the Chinese bilingual education through "foreign" eyesight, can try to present their own reflections, thus deeply understanding both education, cultures, and also contribute to promote cross-cultural and educational exchange.This thesis presents several shortcomings, amongst which the subjects of the study being limited to a few population, the twins family, Korea family in China, and the author’s twin daughters, is one important point, which is due to the fact that regardless of the somewhat easy accessibility, the range offered is limited. Also, the author not being an expert in statistics limits the depth of the results’ analysis made. Finally, the research time being limited, the present study isn’t profound and detailed enough.
Keywords/Search Tags:Bilingual Language Acquisition, Bilingual teaching, Monolingualteaching, Singletons, Equilibrium Bilingual Environment, Multicultural Education
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