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International perspectives on intercultural learning are presented within a framework of cultures of learning related to education and language learning and use in academic contexts. Intercultural learning involves learners travelling to learn in a place where other cultures of learning are dominant and to which they are usually expected to adapt.

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Author:   L. Jin ,  M. Cortazzi
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.827kg
ISBN:  

9780230321335

ISBN 10:   023032133
Pages:   287
Publication Date:   30 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Appendices Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Research and Levels of Intercultural Learning; L.Jin & M.Cortazzi PART I: RESEARCHING TRANSFORMATIONS OF CULTURES OF LEARNING THROUGH INTERNATIONALIZATION Cultures of Learning and Writing in the U.S. Academy; E.Hinkel Inter-perspective Pedagogy: Rethinking Culture and Learning in Multicultural Higher Education in the UK; T.Welikala The Danish Educational Tradition: Multiple Heritages and International Challenges and 'conversation'; J.Vinther & G.Slethaug Trilingual Paths: Cultures of Learning and the Use of Cantonese, English or Putonghua within a Hong Kong Primary School; P.Glenwright & Wang, L. PART II: INTERCULTURAL LEARNING IN DEVELOPING LANGUAGE AND ACADEMIC SKILLS Peer Assistance in an English Immersion Context in China; Xiaohua, L. , L.Jin & M.Cortazzi Researching Intercultural Communication in a UK Higher Education Context; J.Turner & M.K.Hiraga 'Discuss, Analyse, Define... Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK.'; K.Richards & N.Pilcher It's totally different': Undergraduate Chinese Students Learning to Write in a New Zealand University; G.Skyrme PART III: TRANSCULTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND BRIDGING DISTANCES Teaching German in Eastern Europe and China: Reciprocal Relationships between Teaching and Learning Cultures; M.Lux & C.Wochele Chinese Students' Attitudes towards their Learning of French in France; Wang, J.  & S.Bailly Supporting Intercultural Learning for Beginners' Chinese Language Learners at the Open University, UK; I.Álvarez & K.Qian Adjusting to Differing Cultures of Learning: The Experience of Semester-long Exchange Students from Hong Kong; J.Jackson Internet-mediated Intercultural Teaching and Learning: an Overview of Challenges and Opportunities in China; Wang, L. Postscript; L.Jin & M.Cortazzi

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INMA ALVAREZ Lecturer in Spanish language and culture at the University of Michigan, USA and Head of Spanish at The Open University, UK SOPHIE BAILLY Professor in Sociolinguistics and in Foreign Languages Teaching and Learning (Foreign Languages Didactics) in the Department of Linguistics at the Université de Lorraine, France MARTIN CORTAZZI Visiting Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK PHIL GLENWRIGHT (retired) was previously Senior Lecturer in English at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong ELI HINKEL teaches linguistics and applied linguistics at Seattle University, USA MASAKO K. HIRAGA Professor in Linguistics at the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan JANE JACKSON Professor in the English Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong LIXIAN JIN Chair Professor of Linguistics and Intercultural Learning and the Director of the Centre for Research in Intercultural Communication and Learning (CIRCL) at De Montfort University, UK KAN QIAN Lecturer in Chinese and course chair for Beginners' Chinese at The Open University, UK XIAOHUA LIANG Associate Professor in Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China MARKUS LUX Head of Section Good Governance and Education in the Department for International Relations for Central and South-eastern Europe, CIS and China, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart, Germany NICK PILCHER Lecturer in In-sessional English for AcademicPurposes in the School of Marketing Tourism and Languages, Edinburgh Napier University, UK KENDALL RICHARDS Lecturer with the role of Academic Support Adviser in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University, UK GILLIAN SKYRME Lecturer in Linguistics and Second Language Teaching at Massey University, New Zealand GORDON SLETHAUG Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada JOAN TURNER Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for English Language and Academic Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK JANE VINTHER Associate Professor and Head of English Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Campus Kolding, Denmark WANG JINJING PhD student in Linguistics in the University of Lorraine, France and teaches in the department of Linguistics as an Assistant Lecturer LIANG WANG EU-funded language project research assistant based at SOAS, University of London, as well as an Associate Lecturer in Chinese at the Open University, UK WANG LIXUN Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics in the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong THUSHARI WELIKALA Research Fellow at Liverpool Hope University, UK CHRISTIAN WOCHELE Project Manager for the lectureship program in Eastern Europe and China, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart, Germany

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