Learner's privilege and responsibility : a critical examination of the experiences and perspectives of learners from Chinese backgrounds in the United States

This book is about the learner side of the teaching and learning equilibrium, centering on the educational experiences and perspectives of Chinese students in the United States. These students ranged from kindergarteners, adolescents, undergraduate, graduate, to adult learners, across the educationa...

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Other Authors Ma, Wen (Editor), Wang, Chuang (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Informational Age Publishing, 2014.
SeriesLanguage, literacy, and learning.
Subjects
Chinese students > United States.
Education > China.
Education > United States.
Education > Schools > Levels > Higher.
Relating to Asian American, Pacific Islander American people.
Higher education, tertiary education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806612802
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-591-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Guofang Li
  • Part I
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Why the educational community should care about the experiences and perspectives of Chinese students in the United States / Wen Ma and Chuang Wang
  • Chapter 2. Understanding the cultural legacy of Chinese students / June A. Gordon
  • Part II. Chinese international students at American universities
  • Chapter 3. Connecting the dots from the lived experiences of Chinese learners in america / Miranda Lin
  • Chapter 4. Different educational norms and linguistic proficiencies: Looking at Chinese students' classroom participation and social interaction on a U.S. University campus / Stephen Foulkrod and Wen Ma
  • Chapter 5. Understanding Chinese international students' difficulties and strategies in learning English for academic purposes / Chuang Wang and Huifang Zuo
  • Chapter 6. Making academic oral presentations: Chinese graduate students' language socialization / Sue Wang and Gulbahar Beckett
  • Chapter 7. A cross-cultural student teaching experience: The story of a Chinese student teaching in the United States / Ran Hu and Judith Smith
  • Part III. Teaching diverse Chinese learners across the educational spectrum
  • Chapter 8. Learning to write by emergent bilingual writers using two languages / Xun Zheng
  • Chapter 9. From canton to san francisco: 1.5-generation Chinese youth's educational perspectives / Xiangyan Liu
  • Chapter 10. An introspective look at a short-term summer study program for Chinese professors of English as a foreign language / Robert Summers, Josie Prado, and Jeffrey Hayes
  • Chapter 11. Encouragement and participation in a community-based adult esl writing class: Perspectives from two Chinese learners / Heather B. Finn
  • Part IV. Self-studies by learners from Chinese backgrounds
  • Chapter 12. Reflections on teaching-as-telling in america and China: Heidegger / Lao Tzu, and Dewey, Jie Yu
  • Chapter 13. The winding road: A female immigrant's educational experiences / Rong Chang, Gresilda A. Tilley-Lubbs, and Naina Bhandari
  • Chapter 14. Opening up aesthetic possibilities for cross-cultural education / Le Kang
  • Chapter 15. Becoming an American without losing my Chinese identity / Fanni Liu Coward
  • List of contributors.

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