The Reconstruction of Positive Multicultural Environments Through Translingualism in Taiwan

Abstract

Translingualism is a series of actions or steps of empowerment, and such kind of empowerment of us in our daily life might produce an environment that facilitates maturity and responsibility. Diverse races, languages, cultures, ethnicities, social classes, and religions are the fundamental features of interpersonal interactions and community structures. Life in Taiwan is an encounter with the blending of culture and nature, as well as different languages and cultures, and such kind of the circumstances have made everyone learn from one another in order to form positive heterogenous relationships with different peoples from various cultural backgrounds. The aim of this study is to indicate that the theme of translingualism is the concept of interdependence of languages and the transfer of the skills. What I meant is that it is possible for one in Taiwan to be able to speak several languages at a time. Speaking community languages well makes one lead a joyful life or more employable. To achieve this aim, the author has been sharing in my experiences of being multilingual in a multilingual daily life by applying the approach of action research to learn several different languages at a time. The phenomenological method was also been employed in my study, utilizing natural and qualitative description only because phenomenological method makes possible "a descriptive account of the essential structures of the directly given". The result of this study must be considered great necessities by most of the peoples who would like to become multilingual, for it indicates that being multilingual means cultivating eternal capacity for the language learning.