Introduction: My Journey of Adaptive Cultural Transformation -- Asian Students in U.S. Universities -- International Students in the United States -- Cross-Cultural Adaptation -- Intercultural Communication -- Classroom Communication -- Studying Asian Students' Participation in American Classrooms -- Classroom Participation Research -- A Multicase Ethnographic Study -- Understanding Asian Students' Classroom Communication Patterns -- Classroom Communication Patterns -- Synthesis of Perceptions -- Factors Affecting Asian Students' Classroom Communication Patterns -- Factors Across the Individual Participants -- Synthesis of Factors -- Study Findings -- Interpreting Silence from an Asian Perspective -- A Theoretical Framework of Silence -- Silence in U.S. Academia -- Behind the Mask of Asian Face-Saving and Politeness -- The Willingness to Speak Up in Content Courses -- Asian Students' Adaptive Cultural Transformation -- The Concept of Adaptive Cultural Transformation -- Adaptive Cultural Transformation Processes -- Adaptive Cultural Transformation Competence -- Recommendations
Summary
The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in the numbers of Asian students in North American institutions of higher learning. While their academic success has been widely recognized, concerns about their silence in classrooms have also been expressed by educators. Following an overview of Asian students in North American higher education, this book presents a focused ethnographic study of twenty Asian graduate students enrolled in a major US university
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and indexes
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