Researching Intercultural Learning Investigations in Language and Education

by Jin, Lixian; Cortazzi, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780230321335
• ISBN10: 023032133X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book highlights international perspectives on intercultural learning within a framework of cultures of learning related to education and language learning and use in academic contexts. Intercultural learning is seen as an aspect of the cultures of learning approach, which is applied in contexts where learners (or teachers) travel to learn in a place where other cultures of learning are dominant and to which they are usually expected to adapt. Intercultural learning thus refers to the learning which takes place as learners move across or between cultures of learning. Including a diversity of case studies of particular situations of language learning and use, the book offers explorations of trans cultural learning by students and teachers who cross languages and borders for study or work. All authors have long engagement with the cultural participants about whom they are writing.

Author Biography

LIXIAN JIN is Reader in Linguistics & Health Communication and the Director for the Centre of Intercultural Research in Communication and Learning (CIRCL) at De Montfort University, UK.

MARTIN CORTAZZI is a Visiting Professor in the Centre of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK.

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 & W.Lixun
PART II: INTERCULTURAL LEARNING IN DEVELOPING LANGUAGE AND ACADEMIC SKILLS
Peer Assistance in an English Immersion Context in China; L.Xiaohua, 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; J.Wang & 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; L.Wang
Postscript; L.Jin & M.Cortazzi