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Lin, Xiaobing; Liu, Wei – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
In the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the number of Chinese international students studying overseas. There has also been a corresponding increase in the media stories about their cross-cultural difficulties. Reported in this study is a reflective inquiry into my work as an international student advisor with a large number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Intercultural Communication, Academic Advising
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Guo, Yan – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007
Interest in home-school communication has paid little attention, to date, to the experiences of English as a second language (ESL) parents. This article examines recent Chinese immigrant parents' and Canadian teachers' perspectives of ESL learning presented at Parents' Night. On the basis of observations of three annual Parents' Nights, interviews…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Study Skills, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
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Liu, Mowei; Chen, Xinyin; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Zheng, Shujie; Cui, Liying; Li, Dan; Chen, Huichang; Wang, Li – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
The purpose of the study was to investigate maternal socialization goal-oriented behaviours in Chinese and Canadian mothers. Participants were samples of children at 2 years of age and their mothers in P.R. China and Canada. Data on child autonomy and connectedness and maternal encouragement of autonomy and connectedness were collected from…
Descriptors: Socialization, Mothers, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship