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A Resource-Oriented Functional Approach to English Language Learning
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Li, Jia – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2018
This article reports on a case study that investigates the learning preferences and strategies of Chinese students learning English as a second language (ESL) in Canadian school settings. It focuses on the interaction between second language (L2) learning methods that the students have adopted from their previous learning experience in China and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Making International Experiences Accessible to In-Service Teachers through East Meets West Program
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An, Shuhua; Wu, Zhonghe – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2015
The goal of this study was to examine the impact of the integration of global experiences on in-service teachers' international perspectives in mathematics classroom teaching through offering a graduate course "Global Perspectives in Mathematics Teaching" in the form of the East Meets West Program. This program engages teachers in an…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, International Education, Mathematics Instruction, Global Approach
Does Private Tutoring Improve Students' National College Entrance Exam Performance?--A Case Study from Jinan, China
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Zhang, Yu – Economics of Education Review, 2013
With the increasing attention on improving student achievement, private tutoring has been expanding rapidly worldwide. However, the evidence on the effect of private tutoring is inconclusive for education researchers and policy makers. Employing a comprehensive dataset collected from China in 2010, this study tries to identify the effect of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Tutoring, Foreign Countries, Urban Schools
"My Home and My School": Examining Immigrant Adolescent Narratives from the Critical Sociocultural Perspective
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Li, Jun – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2010
Privileging the voices of 12 recent Chinese immigrant adolescents, this multiple-case narrative study examined their home and school experiences from the critical sociocultural perspective. The adolescent stories about home testified to the significant influence of immigrant poverty, parental sacrificial altruism, and disciplinary Chinese…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Altruism, Schools, Adolescents
Chinese Primary School Mathematics Teachers Working in a Centralised Curriculum System: A Case Study of Two Primary Schools in North-East China
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Yun-peng, Ma; Chi-chung, Lam; Ngai-ying, Wong – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2006
Mainland China has a highly centralised curriculum development system. A study of two schools in northeast China, one in a rural area and the other in an urban area, indicates that the primary mathematics curriculum has been widely adopted by teachers at the classroom level. Feeling the intense pressure generated by the national mathematics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Curriculum, Case Studies
Teacher Development, Not Accountability Control, Is the Key to Successful Curriculum Implementation: A Case Study of Two Primary Schools in Northeast China.
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Chi-chung, Lam; Yun-peng, Ma; Ngai-ying, Wong – 1999
Chinese researchers investigated how mathematics teachers in two elementary schools in northeast China adapted the national curriculum. One school was in a very poor, mountainous area, and the other school was in a very large city. Both used the national curriculum and the same set of teaching materials. Researchers used ethnographic methods to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics