1924年，連溫卿發表〈言語之社會的性質〉一文；1929年，《臺灣民報》先後刊載連雅堂〈臺語整理之頭緒〉、〈臺語教理之責任〉兩篇文章，佢哋兩個人嘅論點都已經論及臺灣本土語言嘅重要性。1930年，黃石輝發表〈怎麼不提倡鄉土文學〉一文，強調「用臺灣話做文，用臺灣話做詩，用臺灣臺做小說，用臺灣做歌謠，描寫臺灣的事物」；隔年，郭秋生亦為文發表。黃、郭兩人主張於日本文學同白話文學之外，運用臺灣人最親近嘅臺灣話另創臺灣話文學嘅文章，引起全島嘅注目，有人贊成，亦有人反對，因而展開咗繼「新舊文學論爭」之後嘅另一場「鄉土文學論爭」大論戰(侯俊榮 nd)。
In 1924, Lian Wenqing published "The Social Nature of Speech" 1 yuan; in 1929, "Taiwan Minbao" successively published two articles, "The Clues of Taiwanese Language Collation" and "The Responsibility of Taiwanese Language Teaching", and their arguments had already discussed the importance of Taiwan's native language. In 1930, Huang Shihui published "Why Don't Promote Local Literature" 1 yuan, emphasizing "using Taiwan as an article, Taiwan as a poem, Taiwan as a novel, Taiwan as a ballad, and describing Taiwan's things"; the following year, Guo Qiusheng also published the article. Huang and Guo advocated using Taiwan's closest Taiwan dialect to create an article on Taiwan literature in addition to Japanese literature and vernacular literature, which attracted the attention of the whole island, with some people in favor and others against, thus launching another "local literature debate" after the "old and new literary controversy" (Hou Junrong ND).