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Languaging myths and realities : journeys of Chinese international students /
"Drawing on a digital ethnography of Chinese international students' first semester languaging practices, this book examines how they use their multilingual and multi-modal communicative repertories to facilitate languaging across contexts, in order to suggest how universities might better...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK ; Jackson, TN :
Multilingual Matters,
[2022]
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| Colección: | New perspectives on language and education ;
95. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Who, why, and what about Chinese international students
- Languaging across borders: linguistic demands, challenges and an integrated framework
- A four-month in-depth investigation : an overview of study design
- Chinese international students are not Chinese international students
- First semester languaging journeys of three regular high students
- First semester languaging journeys of two American high students
- Revisiting within-group variabilities among Chinese international students
- An overview of myths and realities
- Myth 1: TOEFL results accurately predict international students' ability to function linguistically on college entry
- Myth 2: An English-only policy is necessary in college classrooms to help international students improve their linguistic functioning in English
- Myth 3: First-year writing guarantees international students' successful writing performances in content-area courses
- Myth 4: English is responsible for all the challenges facing Chinese international students
- Myth 5: Chinese international students are well supported in American higher education linguistically and academically
- Revisiting myths and realities.