Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Qianqian Zhang-Wu
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.397kg
ISBN: 9781788926195
ISBN 10: 1788926196
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 15 November 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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. * Vershawn Ashanti Young, University of Waterloo, Canada *
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. * Vershawn Ashanti Young, University of Waterloo, Canada * Through a vigorous study of Chinese undergraduate students' translingual lives in the United States, author Zhang-Wu debunks five assumptions held by administrators about these students' academic preparedness. Her study helps raise critical issues of social justice for international students, contributing to discussions on monolingualism and racism in American higher education. * Xiaoye You, Pennsylvania State University, USA *
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. * Vershawn Ashanti Young, University of Waterloo, Canada * Through a vigorous study of Chinese undergraduate students' translingual lives in the United States, author Zhang-Wu debunks five assumptions held by administrators about these students’ academic preparedness. Her study helps raise critical issues of social justice for international students, contributing to discussions on monolingualism and racism in American higher education. * Xiaoye You, Pennsylvania State University, USA *
Author Information
Qianqian Zhang-Wu is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing, Northeastern University, USA. Her research interests include multilingual writing and TESOL.
