Researching Chinese Learners: Skills, Perceptions and Intercultural Adaptations

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction: Contexts for Researching Chinese Learners....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Rote Learning in Chinese Culture: Reflecting Active Confucian-Based Memory Strategies....Pages 21-42
Cantonese and English Bodies Do Talk: A Cross-Cultural, Metaphor-Metonymy Study on Body-Part Idioms....Pages 43-66
More than a Journey: ‘Learning’ in the Metaphors of Chinese Students and Teachers....Pages 67-92
Meeting in the Middle? Intercultural Adaptation in Tertiary Oral English in China....Pages 93-118
Reticence and Anxiety in Oral English Lessons: A Case Study in China....Pages 119-137
Intercultural Competence and EFL Teaching in China....Pages 138-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Cultures of Learning and Student Participation: Chinese Learners in a Multicultural English Class in Australia....Pages 169-187
Getting the Big Picture: A Longitudinal Study of Adaptation and Identity in a New Zealand University....Pages 188-211
An Emotional Journey of Change: The Case of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education....Pages 212-232
Intercultural Adaptation of Chinese Postgraduate Students and their UK Tutors....Pages 233-249
Intercultural Adaptation — It is a Two-Way Process: Examples from a British MBA Programme....Pages 250-273
Adapting to Western Norms of Critical Argumentation and Debate....Pages 274-291
Different Waves Crashing into Different Coastlines? Mainland Chinese Learners doing Postgraduate Dissertations in the UK....Pages 292-313
Conclusions: What are We Learning from Research about Chinese Learners?....Pages 314-318
Back Matter....Pages 319-321