Monday, October 6, 2008

My Research Plan

Primary Research
I plan on interviewing my my parents, two cousins, grandparents, one aunt, and one uncle who live in Taiwan because they all speak both Chinese and Taiwanese as well as live or have lived in Taiwan. By interviewing them, I will be able to collect information from people of multiple age groups and life styles.

Secondary Research
I plan on researching the Taiwanese languages's history and it's similarities with Chinese using Wikipedia and a common search engine, Google. Keywords I will use include Chinese, Taiwanese, similarity, and origin. In addition to using the internet, I plan to compare words in 2 versions of a Chinese children's book narrated in both Chinese and Taiwanese.

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