Polls: Nearly 70 % of the people believe that the mother tongue gradually disappears

A poll shows that nearly 70 % of the people believe that the mother tongue of various ethnic groups in Taiwan is gradually disappearing, reflecting the poor results of the Taiwan government's mother tongue.

Comprehensive Taiwan Zhongshi News Network and Liberty reported that Professor Huang Kunhui Education Foundation issued the results of the "Taiwan Mother Lumping Education Police Survey" on Saturday (March 30).The survey results show that 68.4 % of the people interviewed believed that Taiwan's mother tongue was facing a crisis of disappearance.

Huang Kunhui, chairman of the Foundation, said that although the Taiwan Ministry37.2 % of the people believe that it is effective, and 79.6 % believe that watching cartoons or playing games is a good way to learn mother tongue.

The survey results show that although 95.4 % of the people think that they can speak Taiwanese, the proportion of mother tongue in daily life is 64.9 %, and the frequency of use is significantly decreased with the age layer.It is 91.5 %, 50 to 64 years old 73.3 %, 53.5 % at 35 to 49 years old, and 45 % in the age of 20 to 34.

Huang Kunhui said that Taiwan's one -scale language policy in the past has seriously restricted the development of mother tongue and the field of use. Nearly 70 % of the people believe that Taiwan's mother tongue is facing a crisis of disappearance.

Guo Shengyu, the convener of the poll group, said that the mother tongue implies the identity of a person or a nation, and the disappearance of the mother tongue represents the disappearance of Taiwan's identity.In the past, the Taiwanese government respected Chinese and banned dialects. Parents also used Chinese to speak with children at home. Chinese has become a mother tongue, and her mother tongue has become foreign language.

The above survey was a Professor Huang Kunhui Education Foundation from March 15th to March 18th to investigate the 20 -year -old people in Taiwan, and completed a total of 1068 valid samples.At the level of 95 % of confidence, the sampling error value is three percentage points of positive and negative.