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Liu, Qing – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
While educating international students is celebrated as a means of promoting mutual understanding among nations, American higher education has always been entangled with geopolitics. This essay focuses on Tang Tsou, the Chinese scholar who came to the United States as a student in 1941, eventually becoming the nation's leading China expert and…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Political Science, Foreign Students, Educational History
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Zhao, Hongqin; Coombs, Steven – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
This article reviews teaching intercultural competence in the classroom with a group of homogeneous Chinese university students. This is explored through teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing in a way that changes Chinese students' thinking. It involves a change of cultural perspectives by placing the concept of "the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Cultural Awareness
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Zhao, Hongqin – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2008
Teacher motivation has been found to be a critical predictor of teachers' work commitment, identity and performance, yet has received insufficient attention in educational policymaking. In this article the reasons for people becoming teachers of English as a foreign language in China, reflect both social and psychological factors. This…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Teacher Motivation, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers