Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Contexts for Researching Chinese Learners; Part I: Developing Teaching and Learning in China; 1 Rote Learning in Chinese Culture: Reflecting Active Confucian-Based Memory Strategies; 2 Cantonese and English Bodies Do Talk: A Cross-Cultural, Metaphor-Metonymy Study on Body-Part Idioms; 3 More than a Journey: 'Learning' in the Metaphors of Chinese Students and Teachers; 4 Meeting in the Middle? Intercultural Adaptation in Tertiary Oral English in China
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"-- Provided by publisher
