Researching Chinese learners: skills, perceptions and intercultural adaptations

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 LIXIAN JIN is Reader in Linguistics & Health Communication and the Director for the Centre of Intercultural Research in Communication and Learning (CIRCL) at De Montfort University, UK. MARTIN CORTAZZI is a Visiting Professor in the Centre of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK. DR JIN and PROFESSOR CORTAZZI are visiting professors at several key universities in China and have been conducting joint research into Chinese and other learners of English for over twenty years by using a variety of research methods including surveys, ethnography, narrative and metaphor analysis. Their research, with over 100 publications, has been widely recognized by researchers and university teachers from the West and in East Asia. They are the series editor and cultural editor for College English textbooks: 'Creative Reading and Creative Communication', jointly published by Macmillan publishers and Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. They have also published a series of teachers' books for 'New Standard College English' textbooks by Macmillan publishers and Beijing Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press. INDICE: Figures - Tables - Diagrams - Appendices - Acknowledgements - Notes On Contributors - Introduction: Contexts for Researching Chinese Learners; 'L.Jin' & 'M.Cortazzi' - PART I: DEVELOPING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN CHINA - Rote Learning in Chinese Culture: Reflecting Active Confucian-Based Memory Strategies;' X.Li' & 'J.Cutting' - Cantonese and English Bodies do Talk: A Cross-Cultural, Metaphor-Metonymy Study on Body-Part Idioms; 'D.Chung-Hong Leung' & 'P.Crisp' - More Than a Journey: 'Learning' in the Metaphors of Chinese Studentsand Teachers; 'L.Jin' & 'M.Cortazzi' - Meeting in the Middle? Intercultural Adaptation in Tertiary Oral English in China; 'P.Stanley - 'Reticience and Anxiety in Oral English Lessons: A Case Study in China; 'M.Liu' & 'J.Jackson' - Intercultural Competence and EFL Teaching in China; 'Y.Zhou', 'S.Xu' & 'J.Bayley- 'PART II: INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION: CHINESE LEARNERS IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS - Cultures of Learning and Student Participation: Chinese Learners in a Multicultural English Class in Australia;' H.Parris-Kidd' & 'J.Barnett' - Getting the Big Picture: A Longitudinal Study of Adaptation and Identity in a New Zealand University; 'G.Skyrme' & 'C.White - 'An Emotional Journey of Change: TheCase of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education;' Q.Gu - 'Intercultural Adaptation of Chinese Postgraduate Students and their UK Tutors; 'Y.Zhou, K.Topping' & 'D.Jindal-Snape' - Intercultural Adaptation b It is a Two Way Process: Examples from a British MBA Programme; 'T.Zhao' &' J.Bourne' - Adapting to Western Norms of Critical Argumentation and Debate; 'K.Durkin' - Different Waves Crashing into Different Coastlines? Chinese Learners Doing Postgraduate Dissertations in the UK;' N.Pilcher,' 'M.Cortazzi' & 'L.Jin' - Conclusions: What Are We Learning From Research About Chinese Learners? 'L.Jin' &' M.Cortazzi' - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24388-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 344
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido