This book reports the current aspects of children from multilingual families in Taiwan and
describes these children's perceptions towards their linguistic academic and social
development from a survey study and a discourse analysis study. The discourse analysis study
focuses on the narrative developments of children born to Southeast Asian mothers versus
average Taiwanese children across four grade levels in the elementary school. This book is
significant in four aspects: describing the children with multilingual family background
qualitatively and quantitatively including a wide range and a large number of participants
proposing new analytical approaches for child narrative research and compiling applicable
classroom activities based on of research findings. The cultural and linguistic background of
the children described in this book may be of interest to researchers and educators not only in
Chinese-speaking regions but also in areas where the phenomenon of multilingual family is
becoming common in the society.
