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Li, Minglin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
The scale of English language education in China is astounding, but recent research has shown that the latest national English education policy for Chinese schools has not been implemented successfully due to various reasons. One reason given for the lack of success is the impracticability of the top-down policy itself excluding teachers'…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Curriculum Design, Standards, English (Second Language)
Yan, Chunmei – Educational Action Research, 2017
In contrast with its high level of popularity in both research and practice for in-service teacher development, teacher research has received much less attention in pre-service language teacher education as a reflective learning approach, particularly in China's context. Action research, as a major form of teacher research, has rarely been…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Student Relationship, Preservice Teacher Education
Van Horn, Jordan – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2017
This case study analyzed data from an asynchronous written mediated exchange between a native speaker and nonnative speaker of English. Three methods of analysis-error analysis, propositional complexity (idea units), and qualitative analysis were used to analyze learner performance over time. The results from these methods were visualized and…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Case Studies, Applied Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language)
Yan, Kun; Berliner, David C. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016
To date, no empirical study has focused upon understanding the tensions in gifted college programs in China. This qualitative inquiry examines the tensions the "Mount Everest Plan" programs face while initiating gifted education reform in China, how the gifted college students characterize these tensions, and what conditions they believe…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Programs, Conflict, Gifted
Qi, Grace Yue – Multilingual Education, 2016
English has become a compulsory subject from Primary Three in China since 2003 and is gradually being introduced even earlier into the curriculum in many schools. This highlights the official importance of English in both primary school education and society. However, although a compulsory subject, there are fewer English lessons than for Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Second Language Instruction
Chen, Lidan – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study reports an empirical study of an explicit instruction of corpus-aided Business English collocations and verifies its effectiveness in improving learners' collocation awareness and learner autonomy, as a result of which is significant improvement of learners' collocation competence. An eight-week instruction in keywords' collocations,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Business English
Liu, Jianwei; McMahon, Mary; Watson, Mark – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2015
Career aspirations developed in childhood may impact on future career development in adolescence and adulthood. Family is an important context in which children develop their career aspirations. This study examined how parents influence children's career aspirations in mainland China from both the parents' and children's perspectives. Eight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Children, Parent Attitudes
Nuske, Kyle – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
World Englishes has become a robust field of inquiry as scholars pursue more nuanced understandings of linguistic localization and multilinguals' negotiations of language differences. Yet research demonstrates that teachers and learners of English as a foreign language continue, albeit in a partially conflicted way, to believe that prestigious…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zhu, Qiyun; Carless, David – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Peer feedback carries a number of potential benefits to students, yet how they learn in the process remains under-researched. Building on ideas of feedback as dialogue, this study aims to unpack the respective perceptions of the provider and the receiver of peer feedback in relation to the benefits and challenges of dialogue about academic…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Qualitative Research
Krasny, Marianne E.; DuBois, Bryce; Adameit, Mechthild; Atiogbe, Ronnie; Alfakihuddin, Muhammad Lukman Baihaqi; Bold-erdene, Tergel; Golshani, Zahra; González-González, Rodrigo; Kimirei, Ishmael; Leung, Yamme; Shian-Yun, Lo; Yao, Yue – Online Learning, 2018
Social support and face-to-face learning may enhance outcomes for students who face barriers in accessing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This study investigated how self-identified volunteer leaders guide and foster interactions among small groups of students who face technical and conceptual barriers in accessing MOOC content. Several…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Malechwanzi, J. Muthiani; Shen, Hong; Mbeke, Caroline – Cogent Education, 2016
This paper traces the development and current situations of higher education in China and Kenya. This paper calls for rethinking on how to address increasing demand for access and quality through creating a conducive environment for learning and researching for both students and faculties. The paper presents a comparative study where China has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Hammer, Anne Synnøve Ekrene; He, Min – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
This comparative study examines the way in which preschool teachers support children's science learning in a Chinese and a Norwegian kindergarten. The study takes an ethnographic approach. Preschool teachers from one kindergarten in Shanghai and one in Bergen were asked to videotape educational activities that focused on science in their…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis
Deng, Fangfang; Lin, Yuewu – English Language Teaching, 2016
Grammar is "a system of rules governing the conventional arrangement and relationship of words in a sentence" (Brown 1994) which can facilitate the acquisition of a foreign language and is conducive for cultivating comprehensive language competence. Most teachers regard grammar as a frame of English learning. The grammar teaching beliefs…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Grammar, Comparative Analysis, High School Students
Rai, Laxmisha; Deng, Chunrao – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
With the frequent interaction between China and the world, glocalisation, the combination of globalisation and localisation, is an unavoidable trend. This paper argues that the association of local situation with global awareness is one of the ways to assimilate English for daily use in Chinese context. The fundamental idea is that the use of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Global Approach
Cheung, Che Keung; Geng, Shuang; Chuah, Kong Bieng; Chau, Yiu Chung; Kwong, Kar Fai – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to present the result of the pilot run of a research project which aims at evaluating the applicability of project-based action learning (PAL) to shop floor organizational learning (OL) component in a manufacturing company in Dongguan, China. How the PAL framework was introduced and implemented is described. The factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Vocational Education, Pilot Projects