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Wang, Jin – English Language Teaching, 2011
Language is a part of culture, and plays a very important role in the development of the culture. Some sociologists consider it as the keystone of culture. They believe, without language, culture would not be available. At the same time, language is influenced and shaped by culture, it reflects culture. Therefore, culture plays a very important…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Guo, Juan; Zhang, XiangKui; Wang, Yong; Xeromeritou, Aphrodite – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2011
The researchers studied humour among Chinese and Greek preschool children in relation to cognitive development. The sample included 55 Chinese children and 50 Greek children ages 4½ to 5½ years. Results showed that both Chinese and Greek children's humour recognition were significantly and positively correlated to their cognitive development, but…
Descriptors: Humor, Young Children, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
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Hunt, Jessica H.; Hu, Bi Ying – School Community Journal, 2011
This introductory qualitative study sought to explain American and Chinese-born mothers' personal beliefs and experiences with mathematics, views of U.S. mathematics curriculum, and how these factors influenced motivation regarding roles played in their children's mathematical learning through expectancy-value and attribution theories. The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Behavior Theories, Mothers, Parent Participation
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Zhong, Wanjuan; Ehrich, Lisa Catherine – Journal of Educational Administration, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore two dimensions of leadership practices (i.e. teaching and learning and sources of power) used by two exemplary principals in mainland China against a background of education reform and to identify how broader contextual factors have shaped these two dimensions of their leadership.…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles
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Zhang, Chenyi; Morrison, Johnetta W. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2010
Based on the occurrence of modernization and globalization in Chinese society over the last few decades, the content of 145 stories, published in the most popular Chinese children's story magazine from the 1980s to the present, were examined for the representation of cultural values. The presence of Chinese, Western and social-moral values in…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Global Approach, Moral Values, Cultural Influences
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Zhang, Wenli – International Education Studies, 2009
Superstitious ideas are always in people's life in spite of scientific and technological advancement. Hungry Ghost Festival in China, Halloween in some western countries and Day of the Dead in Mexico are three religious festivals which are observed every year. They reveal people's idea about ghosts and spirits after death. They also include…
Descriptors: Death, Cultural Influences, Asian Culture, Religious Factors
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Chang, Bo – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2010
Knowledge construction is regarded as an effective learning model in practice. When more and more learning communities are organized to promote knowledge construction, it is necessary to know how to use different tools to support knowledge construction in the learning community context. In the literature, few researchers discuss how to construct…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Open Education, Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning
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Young, Arlene Shorter – Journal of International Students, 2011
Given the receptivity of American colleges to international students, administrators and professors must recognize the diversity such registrants bring to campus in the form of achievement, age, gender, language, and national differences. The purpose of this study was to compare learning style preferences of international first year college…
Descriptors: College Students, Anxiety, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style
Su, Feng, Ed. – Trentham Books Ltd, 2011
Eight students from mainland China chart their learning journeys across national and continental boundaries and socio-cultural contexts. The five women and three men structure their experiences of studying in China and the West around the turning points and life changing choices they made in chasing their dreams. They embody its emergent…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Cumming, Brett – Online Submission, 2011
Although generally acknowledged as complex and multidimensional, bilingual education, when successful, plays an important role in maintaining and developing bilingualism, resulting in numerous benefits to those who undertake it. This essay will discuss the necessary components and principles of what is required to make a successful bilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs
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Stork, Elizabeth; Hartley, Nell T. – Journal of International Education Research, 2011
This empirical study reports on similarities and differences in the perceptions that Chinese and American students hold about classroom behavior of professors. At issue is identifying behaviors deemed as acceptable as opposed to being offensive. Cultural dimensions and educational philosophical worldviews are offered for context. The underlying…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Behavior, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Grimshaw, Trevor – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2010
Essentialist representations of the Orientalised Other abound within the literature of intercultural communication. The dominant discourse constructs Chinese-speaking students as members of a homogenised collective: passive recipients of knowledge who are reliant on a reproductive approach to learning. This article seeks to offer a corrective to…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intercultural Communication, Debate, Cultural Activities
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Baicai, Sun; Jingjian, Xu – Chinese Education and Society, 2010
Using the data from a large-scale survey in Gansu province, China, the article explores the issue of school attendance among ethnic minority children from the perspective of cultural capital. We find that the rate of school attendance among ethnic minority children is substantially lower than that among ethnic Han children, but that ethnic…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Minority Group Children, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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Hickey, Christopher; Jin, Aijing – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2010
Among the many changes occurring across Chinese society in the early phase of Y2K is the construction and implementation of a new physical education (PE) curriculum. Not unlike recent changes in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, this process has seen a heightening of the emphasis on health. Presented within a wider framework for making the school…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Hong, Yanbi – Chinese Education and Society, 2010
This paper discusses effects of home language usage on minority student educational attainment in western China. Using survey data, the author finds that non-Chinese-speaking minority students are at a disadvantage in the transition to senior secondary schools. However, their transition to junior secondary schools is even more complicated. Rural…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Secondary Schools, Speech Communication, Bilingual Education
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