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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Impact of Unsymmetrical FOKs on the Language Learning of Mixed-race
Children: A Taiwanese Case
Fan Sa-hui
(English Department, National Taichung University of Education, Taichung, Taiwan)
Abstract: Globalization has created a trend of worldwide emigration/immigration. This new population flow has focused researchers’ attention on the issues of education, language, and equality in the families of cross-national marriages. The current study documents the contextual factors related to early language development inside families of cross-national marriages in Taiwan. Ethnographic data were gathered from documenting two families with Indonesian immigrant mothers and with a mixed-race child diagnosed with language delay. The theoretical framework used was funds of knowledge. The findings reveal that (1) there were cultural discontinuities between the home and formal learning settings; (2) the mothers and the therapists held contradictory views; (3) there were dual misrecognitions of the knowledge funds of these families; and (4) the Southeast Asian immigrant mothers have developed sequential and multiple funds of knowledge.
Keywords: bicultural children, critical literacy, Funds of Knowledge, Southeast Asian immigrants, Taiwan