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Download full textWu, Ya-Ling – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2021
This study examined a proposed model of employment quality among female immigrants after their participation in vocational training in Taiwan, drawing on the developmental-contextual model of career development. It simultaneously tested the relationship between the distal contextual variable (i.e., perceived Taiwanese attitudes toward immigrant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Immigrants, Vocational Education
Direct linkLin, Shumin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This study aimed to explore how gender restructuring might interact with immigrant second language (L2) learning in the new trends of feminized marriage migration in Asia, using Mandarin-language education in Taiwan as a case study. Drawing on positioning theory to analyze classroom discourse in a Mandarin-language class for marriage-migrants,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Gender Issues, Marriage, Mandarin Chinese
Wu, Ya-Ling; Wu, Hsing-Chen – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2015
Based on a sociocultural approach to adult learning and poststructural feminist theories, this study draws on interviews with 11 married Vietnamese women to explore the higher education learning experiences of Vietnamese immigrant women in Taiwan. On the basis of their husbands' permission and support, Vietnamese immigrant women embraced the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Females, Higher Education
Chou, Y. C.; Pu, C. Y.; Lee, Y. C.; Lin, L. C.; Kroger, T. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: Little account has been taken of quality of life (QoL) among family carers of adults with an intellectual disability (ID) and family carers of adults with a mental illness (MI), particularly the female ageing carers' perceived stigma. We explore whether there are differences in the significant predictors of female ageing family carers'…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Mental Disorders, Quality of Life, Questionnaires
Peer reviewedLiao, Chao-chih; Bresnahan, Mary I. – Language Sciences, 1996
Using a questionnaire, this study investigates what representatives of the American English and Mandarin cultures say when they want to refuse a request. Findings stress the differences between the strategies of refusal such as expressing or avoiding an expression of a positive attitude, or giving external or personal reasons for refusing. (18…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context
