| Description |
xix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Palgrave Connect
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 8.Getting the Big Picture: A Longitudinal Study of Adaptation and Identity in a New Zealand University / Cynthia White -- 9.An Emotional Journey of Change: The Case of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education / Qing Gu -- 10.Intercultural Adaptation of Chinese Postgraduate Students and their UK Tutors / Divya Jindal-Snape -- 11.Intercultural Adaptation - It is a Two-Way Process: Examples from a British MBA Programme / Jill Bourne -- 12.Adapting to Western Norms of Critical Argumentation and Debate / Kathy Durkin -- 13.Different Waves Crashing into Different Coastlines? Mainland Chinese Learners doing Postgraduate Dissertations in the UK / Lixian Jin |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Developing Teaching and Learning in China -- 1.Rote Learning in Chinese Culture: Reflecting Active Confucian-Based Memory Strategies / Joan Cutting -- 2.Cantonese and English Bodies Do Talk: A Cross-Cultural, Metaphor-Metonymy Study on Body-Part Idioms / Peter Crisp -- 3.More than a Journey: ̀€Learning' in the Metaphors of Chinese Students and Teachers / Martin Cortazzi -- 4.Meeting in the Middle? Intercultural Adaptation in Tertiary Oral English in China / Phiona Stanley -- 5.Reticence and Anxiety in Oral English Lessons: A Case Study in China / Jane Jackson -- 6.Intercultural Competence and EFL Teaching in China / Jonathan Bayley -- pt. II Intercultural Adaptation: Chinese Learners in International Contexts -- 7.Cultures of Learning and Student Participation: Chinese Learners in a Multicultural English Class in Australia / Jemry Barnett -- |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Chinese students.
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Chinese -- Foreign countries.
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English language -- Spoken English.
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Chinese speakers.
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English language -- Study and teaching -- China.
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Second language acquisition.
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Vocabulary -- Study and teaching.
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| Author |
Cortazzi, Martin.
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Jin, Lixian, 1957-
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| LC no. |
2010050912 |
| ISBN |
0230243886 (hardback) |
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9780230243880 (hardback) |
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