| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 355 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Researching Cultures of Learning / Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin -- Part I: Some Issues of Research and Its Application. Cultures of Learning: An Evolving Concept and an Expanding Field / Yuan Yuan and Qun Xie ; Comparing Learning Characteristics in Chinese and Anglophone Cultures: Pitfalls and Insights / Janette Ryan -- Part II: Exploring Changes in Cultural Heritages and Learning. Understanding the Chinese Learners from a Perspective of Confucianism / Junju Wang ; Reforming Teacher Education in East Africa: The Importance of Socio-cultural Context / Jan Abd-Kadir and Frank Hardman ; Changing Cultural Ways with Praise: A Distant Action Research Project in China / Jing Wang and Martin Cortazzi ; Cultures of Learning in Academia: A Lebanese Case Study / Nahla N. Bacha and Rima Bahous ; Voices of the Reticent? Getting Inside Views of Vietnamese Secondary Students on Learning / Dat Bao ; Towards Transformative English Language Education: Evolving Glocalization in Textbooks used in Malaysia / Hajar Abdul Rahim and Shakila Abdul Manan -- Part III: Learners' Perceptions and Expectations of Teachers. Kazakh Students' Perceptions of Good English Teachers: Multiple Heritages in a Culture of Learning / Gulnissa Makhanova and Martin Cortazzi ; 'He or She?' Examining Cultural Influences on Iranian Language Learners' Perceptions of Teacher Efficacy / Majid Nemati and Shiva Kaivanpanah ; Poles Apart: Protocols of Expectations about Finnish and Thai Teachers / Erich Berendt and Maaret Mattsson ; Problematizing the Culture of Learning English in Vietnam: Revisiting Teacher Identity / Le Thi Thu Huyen and Phan Le Ha -- Part IV: The Dynamics of Socialization and Motivation in Cultures of Learning. Cultural Models, Children's Beliefs, and Parental Socialization: European American and Chinese Learning / Jin Li ; Social Network Relations in Omani Students' Motivation to Learn English / Sami Dadi and Lixian Jin ; Demotivating Factors Affecting Iranian High School Students' English Learning / Rahman Sahragard and Zahra Alimorad ; Japanese EFL Learners' Remotivation Strategies / Joseph Falout, Tim Murphey, Tetsuya Fukuda and Maria Trovela |
| Summary |
This edited book is the first collection of research-based papers on cultures of learning, a concept which has been developed by the editors over 20 years. It assembles research with a considerable international range with a team of experts (working in USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Finland, France, Iran, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Thailand) with deep experience of the wide range of cultural contexts which are investigated, many related to 'home contexts' of the authors themselves. The book includes a diversity of case studies of particular situations of language learning and use; it offers explorations of transcultural learning by students and teachers who cross languages and borders for study or work. All authors have long engagement with the cultural participants about whom they are writing. This book thus includes a range of orientations, viewpoints and critical stances on cultures of learning and prospective authors have been invited for their expertise, experience and insights in cultural contexts of learning in different countries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EbscoHost platform, viewed April 2, 2015) |
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
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Language and education.
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Language and culture.
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Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
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Sociolinguistics.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- General.
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Languages.
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Language and culture
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Language and education
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching
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Language teaching & learning.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Languages.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cortazzi, Martin, editor.
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Jin, Lixian, 1957- editor.
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| LC no. |
2012037960 |
| ISBN |
9781137296344 |
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1137296348 |
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