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This study investigates traditional life and dialectal variation of S'uli Atayal in Nansan villages of Taian, Miaoli with an aim to produce a textbook full of local culture contents and suitable for the first grade students of elementary school. In the study, the researcher not only examines whether the 9-Level Textbooks adequately present Atayal traditional culture but also trace the cultural context of Atayal Mpaynux Tribe via fieldwork. This study develops a Suli Atayal language textbook full of traditional and local culture on the basis of child development theory, with the background of core competencies of 12-year compulsory education.
The first chapter includes preface, study background and motive, research purpose and main theme, focusing on the distribution and current situation of Lyung Penux of Atayal group in Tai'an township, other introductions to Atayal dialects. Through the literature review in Chapter 2, we realize that a textbook suitable for experimental education should take its root in culture and children’s cognitive development. In the third chapter, the researcher designs a textbook for Atayal language learning that matches Atayal lifestyle and local culture according to the Atayal ritual timeline after the analysis of 9-Level Textbooks, fieldwork, with the elderly for material-collecting and information on differences in local culture and dialects. The fourth chapter reports the elements and teaching design of the resultant textbook that is for suitable fore first grader to learn language under cultural contexts, meeting the requirment of the new Twelve-year Curriculum. Chapter 5 concludes the study, reports the limitation, and puts forth suggestions for further studies and policy making.
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