A new representation of Chinese learners : experiences of Chinese learners of English in tertiary Sino-Australian programs in China / Yingmei Luo.

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A new representation of Chinese learners : experiences of Chinese learners of English in tertiary Sino-Australian programs in China / Yingmei Luo.

9789811621529 (electronic bk.)
9811621527 (electronic bk.)
9789811621512
9811621519

Singapore : Springer, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource (147 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-981-16-2152-9 doi

PE1130.C4 L86 2021

428.2/4951

This book examines Chinese tertiary students' experiences of learning English in Sino-Australian programs in China. Using an institutional ethnography, the book examines one well-established Sino-Australian program based at a Chinese university. The book explores the ways that participant students used the Chinese words, tropes and their meanings to describe their English learning experiences with both local Chinese and foreign English teachers. This book introduces an innovative theoretical framework, representation theory with a multilingual perspective, to analyse how Chinese students' everyday experiences are constructed and mediated through language, discourse and identity. This framework also highlights graphic examples of how concepts are created in both Chinese and English, and thus serves as a powerful tool for deconstructing dichotomies between China and the West. The aim of this book is, then, two-fold: to show how a novel theoretical lens can help us to develop more nuanced understandings of Chinese students, and to propose a new methodological and theoretical framework through which one can challenge the monolingual subjectivity and parochial views of both Chinese and Western conceptions.

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Cultural studies and transdisciplinarity in education ; v. 13.

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