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Languaging Myths and Realities

Journeys of Chinese International Students

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvQianqian Zhang-Wu

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Higher education institutions in Anglophone countries often rely on standardized English language proficiency exams to assess the linguistic capabilities of their multilingual international students. However, there is often a mismatch between these scores and the initial experiences of international students in both academic and social contexts. Drawing on a digital ethnography of Chinese international students’ first semester languaging practices, this book examines their challenges, needs and successes on their initial languaging journeys in higher education. It analyzes how they use their rich multilingual and multi-modal communicative repertories to facilitate languaging across contexts, in order to suggest how university support systems might better serve the needs of multilingual international students.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-11-15
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt397 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Perspectives on Language and Education
Antal sidor263
FörlagMultilingual Matters
ISBN9781788926195

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AcknowledgementPrefacePart 1Chapter 1: Who, Why, and What about Chinese International StudentsChapter 2: Languaging across Borders: Linguistic Demands, Challenges and an Integrated FrameworkChapter 3: A Four-Month In-Depth Investigation: An Overview of Study DesignPart 2Chapter 4: Chinese International Students are Not Chinese International StudentsChapter 5: First Semester Languaging Journeys of Three Regular High StudentsChapter 6: First Semester Languaging Journeys of Two American High StudentsChapter 7: Revisiting Within-Group Variabilities among Chinese International StudentsPart 3Chapter 8: An Overview of Myths and RealitiesChapter 9: Myth 1: TOEFL Results Accurately Predict International Students’ Ability to Function Linguistically on College Entry Chapter 10: Myth 2: An English-Only Policy is Necessary in College Classrooms to Help International Students Improve Their Linguistic Functioning in EnglishChapter 11: Myth 3: First-Year Writing Guarantees International Students’ Successful Writing Performances in Content-Area CoursesChapter 12: Myth 4: English is Responsible for All the Challenges Facing Chinese International StudentsChapter 13: Myth 5: Chinese International Students are Well Supported in American Higher Education Linguistically and AcademicallyChapter 14: Revisiting Myths and RealitiesAppendix AAppendix BReferences

Employing various ethnographic methods as well as conducting high-quality discourse analysis, Zhang-Wu offers important and indispensable ways to really engage and teach Chinese students from their own perspectives. For those of us interested in diverse languaging practices, educational equity for international students and progressive pedagogies for English language users from various linguistic backgrounds, this book is very necessary.