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Oxford, Rebecca L.; Cuéllar, Lourdes – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Using the principles of positive psychology and the tools of narrative research, this article focuses on the psychology of five language learners who crossed cultural and linguistic borders. All five were university students learning Chinese in Mexico, and two of them also studied Chinese in China. The grounded theory approach was used to analyze…
Descriptors: Psychology, Personal Narratives, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Zhang, Hong – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Studies on the cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese students in American higher education institutions have received more attention in the past decade with the dramatic increase of Chinese students enrolling in American colleges and universities. According to the 2012 Open Doors Report, the number of students studying in the United States from…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Acculturation, College Students
Craig, Cheryl J.; Zou, Yali; Poimbeauf, Rita – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
In this work, we explore journal writing as a way to come to know culture, particularly cultural phenomenon, vastly different from one's own firmly held and enacted beliefs. In this research, we accept the premise that writing is a way of knowing and adopt journal writing as a tool through which students can explore the knowledge they have…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Cross Cultural Training, Study Abroad, Beliefs
Dauncey, Sarah – Disability & Society, 2012
Through a close reading of Three Days to Walk, a memoir of disability by Chinese writer Zhang Yuncheng, this paper develops a new understanding of self-narrated life writing and its intersection with disability consciousness in the contemporary Chinese context. It examines the changing nature of disability life writing since the end of the early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Personal Narratives, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Patterson, Timothy – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2015
Common sense thinking on international professional development suggests that the rewards for teachers are automatic. One of the most frequently advertised gains teachers are expected to see from participation includes the likelihood that they will have a transformative experience, whereby aspects of their personal or professional attributes are…
Descriptors: Travel, Transformative Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Social Studies
Pullman, Ashley – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
Through ethnographic research, this paper explores narratives of failure constructed within a private Australian accounting college in China. The accounts provided by teachers and students are problematized in order to address how racialization is enacted through accounts of failure within the research site. Through an interpretive theoretical…
Descriptors: Race, International Education, Ethnography, Personal Narratives
Guan, Connie Qun; Ye, Feifei; Meng, Wanjin; Leong, Che Kan – Annals of Dyslexia, 2013
We studied the performance in three genres of Chinese written composition (narration, exposition, and argumentation) of 158 grade 4, 5, and 6 poor Chinese text comprehenders compared with 156 good Chinese text comprehenders. We examined text comprehension and written composition relationship. Verbal working memory (verbal span working memory and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Writing (Composition)
Zhao, Hongqin; Fei, Ying; Lin, Xiao – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2013
Circumscribed by the culture of collectivist and Confucian traditions, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education in China has defaulted to an impersonalized provision and delivery. Much of teaching and learning is to assimilate individuals into a group identity. This epistemological model can be detected in learning outcomes, e.g.,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Rote Learning
Fuchs, Carolin; Snyder, Bill; Tung, Bruce; Jung Han, Yu – ReCALL, 2017
This case study explores how a Chinese-American novice teacher acted as mediator in a telecollaboration with student teacher (ST) peers in the USA who designed tasks for his English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in China. The novice teacher was instrumental in mediating the student teachers' task design process by providing feedback…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Telecommunications, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Xu, Yueting – Language Teaching Research, 2014
This article reports on a narrative study of university EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers' research practices and their identity construction as researchers in China. Drawing upon data from narrative frames among 104 teachers and in-depth interviews with four teachers, the study reveals that teachers' increased research engagement, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Huang, Yang – Journal of International Students, 2014
In this article, the author expresses her thoughts and experiences on studying abroad. Yang Huang explains that studying overseas for international students means a lot--not only being away from home but also experiencing quite a few unexpected difficulties. Studying abroad is full of challenges for every student due to the language barrier,…
Descriptors: Asians, Nurses, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad
Lu, Hangyan; Luk, Jasmine – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2014
Informed by a social and critical turn of reading practices and a poststructuralist paradigm of gender, this study delved into the commonly held belief that reading and language learning is a feminine domain, and examined the connection between the construction of gendered subjectivities and English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) reading practices…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Stress Variables
Miaoyan, Yang; Dunzhu, Nima – Chinese Education & Society, 2015
Assimilation and ethnicization are mainstream voices in current studies of ethnic relations. The former suspects that current social system arrangements are meant to assimilate minority groups into the cultural system of the mainstream ethnic group, while the latter believes that current systemic arrangements will cause minority groups to tend…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Ethnic Groups, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries
Osler, Audrey; Zhu, Juanjuan – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2011
Throughout history individual and collective narratives have been used in struggles for justice. We draw on Sen's theory of justice to examine the potential of narratives in teaching and researching for social justice. Human rights are presented as powerful ethical claims that can be critically examined by learners to consider their rights and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Biographies, Foreign Countries, Civil Rights
Cameron, Catherine Ann; Lau, Cindy; Fu, Genyue; Lee, Kang – Journal of Moral Education, 2012
This cross-cultural study of the moral judgements of Mainland Han-Chinese, Chinese-Canadian, and Euro-Canadian children aged seven to 11 examined the evaluations of narrative protagonists' modest lies and self-promoting truthful statements in situations where they had done a good deed. The story characters had thus either lied or told the truth…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Moral Values