Researching Chinese learners
Subtitle: skills, perceptions and intercultural adaptations
By: edited by Lixian Jin, Martin Cortazzi
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780230243880
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; Second language acquisition; Vocabulary; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; Chinese speakers; English language; Study and teaching; Spoken English
Description: "This collection focuses on Chinese learners with original data sets using innovative research methods. It investigates Chinese learners learning and language skills, perceptions and particularly the processes of reciprocal intercultural adaptations in a wide international context of Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the UK"--
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 7.; title: Cultures of Learning and Student Participation: Chinese Learners in a Multicultural English Class in Australia  -- Jemry Barnett -- 8.; title: Getting the Big Picture: A Longitudinal Study of Adaptation and Identity in a New Zealand University  -- Cynthia White -- 9.; title: An Emotional Journey of Change: The Case of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education  -- Qing Gu -- 10.; title: Intercultural Adaptation of Chinese Postgraduate Students and their UK Tutors  -- Divya Jindal-Snape -- 11.; title: Intercultural Adaptation -- It is a Two-Way Process: Examples from a British MBA Programme  -- Jill Bourne -- 12.; title: Adapting to Western Norms of Critical Argumentation and Debate  -- Kathy Durkin -- 13.; title: Different Waves Crashing into Different Coastlines? Mainland Chinese Learners doing Postgraduate Dissertations in the UK -- Lixian Jin.