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This study, “A study on the integration of folk literature into Chinese teaching to improve multicultural literacy—taking the seventh grade of middle school as an example”, hopes to use the characteristics of ethnic culture rich in folk literature to improve the multicultural literacy ability of the seventh grade students. The teaching materials are mainly based on Taiwanese culture-related folk literature texts, combined with festival customs, ethnic culture and other themes as learning content. It is designed as four themes including “the origin of traditional festivals”, “proverbs and folklores of twenty-four solar terms”", “Sea Festival and Harvest Festival of Amis” and “legends of Hồng Bàng(鴻龐氏) in Vietnam and customs of Tết Hùng Vương(雄王節)”. Besides, this study also conducted a multicultural analysis on the sixth Chinese textbooks of Kang Xuan(康軒)versions. The researcher found out that the content of textbooks is rich in folk literature, traditional festival legends and folk activities. Therefore, in the teaching process, teachers can make good use of the teaching resources provided by the publishing house as the basis to carry out multicultural curriculum design of extension activities. The evaluation method of this research is based on the self-made “Thematic Multicultural Literacy Scale for Twelve Years of State Education ”. With a view to examining the learning effect of students before and after class, the focus of the evaluation is the content of the curriculum design of this research. Take An Kang (安康)Junior High School (pseudonym) as the research field, and the seventh grade Chang Le(常樂)class (pseudonym) as the participating class. Through action research, the researcher examined the effectiveness of multicultural literacy teaching. The result showed that the multicultural literacy ability of each theme had been improved after class. Besides, from the feedback given by the students, after the action teaching, students generally understood the multicultural content of our nationality within the scope of the teacher's curriculum design. Many students not only respected and recognized their own culture, but also increased their actual willingness to participate. However, due to the limitation of teaching time in middle school, this study found that students' learning effect on the part of "intercultural" ability was limited. After teaching action research, for most students, it is impossible to upgrade to a higher level of multicultural literacy competency. Researcher believes that intercultural competence is constructed on the basis of multicultural literacy. Students are also required to have background knowledge across multiple ethnic groups. Therefore, this study suggests that students should supplement their knowledge of cultural backgrounds of different ethnic groups.
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