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Researching Chinese Learners

Skills, Perceptions and Intercultural Adaptations

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Editors:
  1. Lixian Jin

    1. De Montfort University, UK

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  2. Martin Cortazzi

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Contexts for Researching Chinese Learners

    1. Introduction: Contexts for Researching Chinese Learners

      • Lixian Jin, Martin Cortazzi
      Pages 1-18

  3. Developing Teaching and Learning in China

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Rote Learning in Chinese Culture: Reflecting Active Confucian-Based Memory Strategies

      • Xiuping Li, Joan Cutting
      Pages 21-42

    3. Cantonese and English Bodies Do Talk: A Cross-Cultural, Metaphor-Metonymy Study on Body-Part Idioms

      • Danny Chung-hong Leung, Crisp Peter
      Pages 43-66

    4. More than a Journey: ‘Learning’ in the Metaphors of Chinese Students and Teachers

      • Lixian Jin, Martin Cortazzi
      Pages 67-92

    5. Meeting in the Middle? Intercultural Adaptation in Tertiary Oral English in China

      • Phiona Stanley
      Pages 93-118

    6. Reticence and Anxiety in Oral English Lessons: A Case Study in China

      • Meihua Liu, Jane Jackson
      Pages 119-137

    7. Intercultural Competence and EFL Teaching in China

      • Yi Zhou, Shijing Xu, Jonathan Bayley
      Pages 138-166

  4. Intercultural Adaptation: Chinese Learners in International Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Cultures of Learning and Student Participation: Chinese Learners in a Multicultural English Class in Australia

      • Heather Parris-Kidd, Jenny Barnett
      Pages 169-187

    3. Getting the Big Picture: A Longitudinal Study of Adaptation and Identity in a New Zealand University

      • Gillian Skyrme, Cynthia White
      Pages 188-211

    4. An Emotional Journey of Change: The Case of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education

      • Qing Gu
      Pages 212-232

    5. Intercultural Adaptation of Chinese Postgraduate Students and their UK Tutors

      • Yuefang Zhou, Keith Topping, Divya Jindal-Snape
      Pages 233-249

    6. Intercultural Adaptation — It is a Two-Way Process: Examples from a British MBA Programme

      • Tianshu Zhao, Jill Bourne
      Pages 250-273

    7. Adapting to Western Norms of Critical Argumentation and Debate

      • Kathy Durkin
      Pages 274-291

    8. Different Waves Crashing into Different Coastlines? Mainland Chinese Learners doing Postgraduate Dissertations in the UK

      • Nick Pilcher, Martin Cortazzi, Lixian Jin
      Pages 292-313

    9. Conclusions: What are We Learning from Research about Chinese Learners?

      • Martin Cortazzi, Lixian Jin
      Pages 314-318

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 319-321
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • De Montfort University, UK

    Lixian Jin

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Martin Cortazzi

About the editors

JENNY BARNETT is a Senior Lecturer and key researcher in the Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures, University of South Australia JONATHAN G. BAYLEY is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Windsor, Canada JILL BOURNE is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland PETER CRISP has lived and taught in China and Hong Kong for the last 25 years, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for 22 of those years JOAN CUTTING is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland KATHY DURKIN is at the Media School, Bournemouth University, UK QING GU is an Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK JANE JACKSON is Professor in the English Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong DIVYA JINDAL-SNAPE is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, Social Work and Community Education, University of Dundee, Scotland DANNY LEUNG is currently assistantprofessor and director of the MA Programme in Applied English Linguistics, Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong XIUPING LI holds several posts related to Chinese as a Second Language (L2) and Foreign Language (CFL), including Language Instructor at Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK MEIHUA LIU is associate professor of English, Department of Foreign Languages, Tsinghua University, China HEATHER PARRIS-KIDD is an ESL professional with over 15 years experience throughout Asia, Europe and Australia NICK PILCHER is a Lecturer in In-session English for Academic Purposes (EAP), Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland GILLIAN SKYRME is a lecturer in linguistics, second language teaching and English for Academic Purposes, School of Language Studies, Massey University, New Zealand PHIONA STANLEY is a lecturer in Academic Development at the University of South Australia KEITH TOPPING is Professor of Educational and Social Research, School of Education, University of Dundee, Scotland CYNTHIA WHITE is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Language Studies, Massey University, New Zealand SHIJING XU is an Affiliated Research Associate at the National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor, Canada TIANSHU ZHAO is an Associate Professor of School of Foreign Languages at Shenyang Normal University, China YI ZHOU is at the Faculty of Education, University of Windsor, Canada YUEFANG ZHOU is a Research Fellow in the Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews, Scotland

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Researching Chinese Learners

  • Book Subtitle: Skills, Perceptions and Intercultural Adaptations

  • Editors: Lixian Jin, Martin Cortazzi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299481

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24388-0Published: 01 February 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31865-0Published: 01 February 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29948-1Published: 01 February 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 321

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Language Teaching, Language and Literature, Language Education, English

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