Full Description
This collected volume examines the multifaceted contexts and experiences of Chinese students, teachers and scholars in Australia, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK and the US. It can serve both as an introduction to Chinese people's mobility and migration in Higher Education and as a thorough review for more knowledgeable readers.
Contents
PART I: THE EXPERIENCES OF CHINESE STUDENTS ABROAD 1. Negotiating Transnational Life Worlds: Experiences of Chinese Student-Migrants in Australia; Hannah Soong 2. Representing the Chinese Student Abroad: The case of a Concise Chinese-English Dictionary FOR LOVERS (???????); Fred Dervin and Minghui Gao 3. Chinese Students Experiencing Learning French as a Second Language in France: A Case Study of Individual Differences in the Context of Study Abroad; Jinjing Wang and Sophie Bailly PART II: GOING BACK HOME OR NOT? 4. The Pragmatic Cosmopolitan: The 'Serving China' Discourse, Career Plans, and Cosmopolitan Dispositions of Chinese Students in Japan; Herby Lai 5. A risk perspective on Chinese Student Migration in France; Yong Li PART III: CHINESE TEACHERS ABROAD: ADAPTING TO OTHER CONTEXTS 6. Discursive Construction of Chinese Language Teacher Identity; Chun Zhang 7. Change in Teaching Beliefs When Teaching Abroad? A Case Study on Confucius Institute Chinese Teachers' Teaching Experience in the US; Lihong Wang 8. Making Chinese Learnable: Strategies for the Retention of Language Learners; Michael Singh and Jinghe Han 9. Conceptions of Language Teaching of Chinese-Born Language Teachers; Michael Joseph Packevicz, Jr. Afterword: Rethinking the Notion of Chinese Students Abroad: The Need for a New Research Agenda; Xiangyun Du
