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Ganotice, Fraide A., Jr.; Downing, Kevin; Chan, Barbara; Yip, Lee Wai – Educational Studies, 2022
There is a dramatic increase in the number of mainland Chinese students coming to Hong Kong to attend various courses. With the aim of developing a profound understanding of the adaptation of the mainland Chinese students (N = 210), this study tested the relationship between types of motivation and goal content when studying abroad with a wide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Student Motivation, Self Determination
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Jie Fang; Fong Peng Chew; Mohd Shahril Nizam Shaharom – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2024
Although Chinese has become one of the most influential second/foreign languages in the world, teaching Chinese as a foreign/second language (CSL/CFL) abroad faces great challenges. M-learning and mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) display great advantages to facilitate second language learning, including CSL/CFL. However, most research was…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Study Abroad, Second Language Instruction, Barriers
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Christidis, Angela – Chinese Education & Society, 2021
Recent studies indicate that the academic and social integration of overseas students in the destination country often plays a major role in their academic performance, employability outcomes and integration into the wider community. This study investigates these issues in more depth from the perspective of overseas Chinese in the Southwest UK,…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Student Adjustment, Foreign Students, Acculturation
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Manning, Keenan; Kushnazarov, Mansurbek; Oleksiyenko, Anatoly – Educational Practice and Theory, 2019
This paper examines contested meanings of international student mobility in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The study tries to understand why policy makers and university managers find it difficult to diversify student bodies in these jurisdictions. In particular, problems with the conceptualisation of international student mobility are discussed. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Educational Policy
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Ladegaard, Hans J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Recent research has shown that increasing the number of international students and staff in universities does not necessarily make the campus more "international". Ladegaard and Cheng (2014) found that local and non-local students live completely separate lives on campus and do not work together, let alone socialise, unless forced to do…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Velliaris, Donna M., Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
Popular opinion has long assumed that learning a foreign language requires not only traditional classroom instruction but also immersion among native speakers of the language. This opinion is so strongly held that students who study through immersion are believed to become more proficient than those who do not. "Study Abroad Contexts for…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Travel, Learner Engagement