A Survey Of Chinese Language Attitudes And Chinese Language Use Among Italian Chinese Youth

At present,more and more people like to learning Chinese,there are more than one thousand five hundred Confucius institutes and Confucius classrooms around the world,the extent of the radiation is very considerable.With the increasing numbers of Chinese learners,it is very urgent to study on different aspects of Chinese teaching.In Europe,the immigrant population is very large,there is a large number of Chinese immigrants and the generations of Chinese immigrants.This opens up a new direction for the study to the Chinese teaching,namely,the problems about the second generation immigrants' Chinese teaching and learning.This thesis selects the perspective of the language attitude in social linguistics,regards the experience and the actual situation of myself as a Chinese volunteer teacher teaching in Confucius classrooms as the reality basis,researches the situation of the Chinese second generation immigrants' attitude toward Chinese learning in Italy,finding something related to the Chinese language attitude and Chinese usage.In the view of the problems we found,we can design a better Chinese teaching way for the Chinese second generation immigrants.This thesis concludes the following parts:The first part is the introduction section.This part mainly introduces the research background,the research significance,the theoretical basis,the research methods and the research structure.The first chapter is literature review.This part collects and summarizes the research results inland and abroad about the study of language attitude under the perspective of sociolinguistics,the study of the Chinese usage among the second generation immigrant overseas.The second chapter is the research designing.Though the investigation of Chinese attitudes and Chinese usage and the relation between them,describing the research questions,introducing the basic information of the research,the method of doing the research,then,collect the survey data.The third chapter is the survey data analysis.From the language attitude,the usage of language and the correlation of them,using Excel and SPSS20.0 software to analysis the survey data.The forth chapter is the suggestions of Chinese teaching to the generations of Chinese immigrants.The three proposals are stimulating the motivation of generations of Chinese immigrants' studying,cultivating generations of Chinese immigrants' emotion towards Chinese learning,creating Chinese language environment for the generations of Chinese immigrants.The last part is the conclusion.This part summarizes the research conclusion and illustrates the innovations and shortcomings of the thesis,then puts forward to the future about Chinese teaching and learning among the generations of Chinese immigrants.