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Macau Periodical Index (澳門期刊論文索引)
- Author
- Leong, Sok Man
- Title
- The impact of intergroup attitude on language: a survey study of Macau high school students
- Journal Name
- 澳門研究
- Pub. Info
- Apr. 2009, No.51, pp. 146-154
- Abstract
- Paragraph Headings: 1. Introduction 2. Literature review 2.1. Ethnic Group and Intergroup Attitude 2.2. Intergroup Attitude and Language 3. Empirical research 3.1. Research Method and Materials 3.2. Participants 3.3. Research questions 4. Data presentation 4.1. Data presentation 4.2. Intergroup attitude vs. the importance of "Quadrilingualism" 4.3. Intergroup attitude vs. recommended starting age for language learning 4.4. Intergroup attitude vs. definition of the official language "Chinese" 5. Discussion 5.1. Cantonese, as the ingroup language of Macau Chinese, possesses superior status 5.2. Putonghua, as the outgroup language in the intergroup communication, its value depends on people' s intergroup attitude 5.3. Portuguese possesses a low importance in Macau 5.4. English, as one of the international communicative languages, enjoys a special status in Macau 6. Conclusion Tables: 1. Questionnaire items used in the study 2. Participants' social identity before adjustment categorization 3. Participants' social identity after adjustment categorization 4. Correiation between social identity and scores of intergration and separation 5. Influence of intergroup attitudes to comments on the importance of "Quadri-lingualism" 6. Influence if intergroup attitudes to recommended starting age fore language learning 7. Intergroup attitude vs. definition of "Chinese" in oral usage 8. Intergroup attitude vs. recommended oral language for policy address