Researching Chinese Learners: Skills, Perceptions and Intercultural Adaptations

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
Introduction: Contexts for Researching Chinese Learners......Page 22
Part I: Developing Teaching and Learning in China......Page 40
1 Rote Learning in Chinese Culture: Reflecting Active Confucian-Based Memory Strategies......Page 42
2 Cantonese and English Bodies Do Talk: A Cross-Cultural, Metaphor–Metonymy Study on Body-Part Idioms......Page 64
3 More than a Journey: 'Learning' in the Metaphors of Chinese Students and Teachers......Page 88
4 Meeting in the Middle? Intercultural Adaptation in Tertiary Oral English in China......Page 114
5 Reticence and Anxiety in Oral English Lessons: A Case Study in China......Page 140
6 Intercultural Competence and EFL Teaching in China......Page 159
Part II: Intercultural Adaptation: Chinese Learners in International Contexts......Page 188
7 Cultures of Learning and Student Participation: Chinese Learners in a Multicultural English Class in Australia......Page 190
8 Getting the Big Picture: A Longitudinal Study of Adaptation and Identity in a New Zealand University......Page 209
9 An Emotional Journey of Change: The Case of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education......Page 233
10 Intercultural Adaptation of Chinese Postgraduate Students and their UK Tutors......Page 254
11 Intercultural Adaptation – It is a Two-Way Process: Examples from a British MBA Programme......Page 271
12 Adapting to Western Norms of Critical Argumentation and Debate......Page 295
13 Different Waves Crashing into Different Coastlines? Mainland Chinese Learners doing Postgraduate Dissertations in the UK......Page 313
Conclusions: What are We Learning from Research about Chinese Learners?......Page 335
Index......Page 340