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The Lived Experience of Chinese International Students in the U.S. - Yalun Zhou, Michael Wei

The Lived Experience of Chinese International Students in the U.S.

An Academic Journey

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Buch | Softcover
211 Seiten
2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-15-9451-9 (ISBN)
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This book marks a departure from traditional assumptions concerning the deficiencies of Chinese international students in terms of learning and adapting. It employs phenomenological narrative inquiry and a small culture approach to investigate the evolved, fluid experience of pursuing a graduate degree in the U.S. at Blue Fountain University (a pseudonym for a mid-western university).

Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this book addresses two fundamental questions: What study abroad is and what study abroad counts?  The sociocultural dimensions that shape the cross-border degree seeking endeavors inform stakeholders what works for Chinese international students’ successful pursuits as EFL learners and ESL users and what could be improved. This book shares thoughts on the implications and impact of educational contexts to stakeholders at normal and dynamic contexts interrupted by global pandemic outbreak. It contributes to the understanding of the internationalization of the host institute and the EFL education reform efforts (policy making, teacher education, and classroom practice) in China (and in Asia at large).

Yalun Zhou, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Media, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. She has an interdisciplinary background in applied linguistics. Her research involves the learning, teaching, and use of Chinese and English in various settings, social contexts, and environments (traditional and cognitive immersive with Artificial Intelligence). Besides teaching and researching, she is also involved in language curriculum design, instructional integration of language learning and immerging technology, and language teacher training. Michael Wei, Ph.D., is a full professor and TESOL Program Director at the School of Education, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. He is the co-editor of Applied Linguistics for Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners. His research interests include English phonetics, reading English as a second language, literacy, learning environments, and learning English to native-like proficiency.

Chapter 1. Introduction and Background.- Chapter 2. The Lived Experience from China to the U.S.: A Sociocultural Roadmap.- Chapter 3. The Making and Remaking of the Chinese international Students: Perceptions as L2 Learners/Users.- Chapter 4. Understanding the Lived Experiences: A Poststructuralist Interpretation.- Chapter 5. Thoughts to Stakeholders in the Eye of the Beholders.- Chapter 6 Conclusions and Thinking to the Future.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects ; 56
Zusatzinfo 2 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; XXI, 211 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Singapore
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
Schlagworte Academic Sojourners • Chinese International Students • Chinese Students in the U.S. • International education • lived experience • narrative inquiry • Phenomenology • second language learner • second language user • teaching english as a foreign language
ISBN-10 981-15-9451-1 / 9811594511
ISBN-13 978-981-15-9451-9 / 9789811594519
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