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Jinqi Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite the many critiques of views that categorise and simplify Chinese international students' use of memorisation as deficient or rote learning, these views persist. Using ethnographic methods to collect data over 18 months, this study identified the key practices employed by students as they negotiated their learning experiences in an…
Descriptors: Memorization, Rote Learning, Learning Experience, Foreign Students
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Hong Zhang; Xiaonan Li; Wenzhe Chang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines the representation of cultures across three sets of national English textbooks currently used in China by conducting a synchronic content analysis to explore what and how cultures are represented in the textbooks. Data analysis was conducted based on a newly constructed framework focusing on the content (countries and…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Cultural Awareness, Asian Culture, Textbooks
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Ge Song – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Chinatowns in Canada and the United States are marked by cultural hybridity, where the translation of various types, verbal and non-verbal, takes place to produce distinct urban meanings. On the basis of an ethnographic observation, this article reveals the role of translation in the signification and imagination of Chinatowns. Cultural diaspora…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Cross Cultural Studies, Chinese Americans
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Lihong Ma; Leifeng Xiao; Jian Liu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
With the widening urban-rural gap caused by urbanisation, the equity of urban-rural education has become a research hotspot. This study explored the differences in motivational beliefs about English learning among Chinese urban and rural students and the impact of motivational beliefs on their English performance. A total of 6326 urban and 2600…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction