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Hsieh, Jasper Kun-Ting – Journal of International Students, 2020
Many studies focus on Chinese-speaking international students' adaptation issues inside and outside educational settings in the West. A strong emphasis has been placed on identifying Chinese-speaking international students' problems and solving them through educational programs, pedagogies, and curricula. This emphasis potentially categorizes…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Chinese
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Liu, Lian; Stevenson, Marie – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2013
This study examines stance in cross-cultural media discourse by comparing disaster news reports on the Sichuan earthquake of May 2008 in a Chinese, an Australian Chinese, and an Australian newspaper. The stance taken in the news reports is examined using the Attitude sub-system of Martin and White's (2005) Appraisal framework. The analysis…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Natural Disasters, Discourse Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
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Yang, Ping – International Education Studies, 2015
This paper reflects on a team translation project on Aboriginal culture designed to enhance university students' intercultural communication competence and understanding through engaging in an interactive team translation project funded by the Australia-China Council. A selected group of Chinese speaking translation students participated in the…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Chinese, Translation, College Students
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Han, Jinghe; Yao, Jun – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This paper explores the practicum experience of a group of bilingual student-teachers who taught Chinese using English to learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in Western Sydney schools. Specifically it explores how these student-teachers used English as the instructional language in class and what strengths and weaknesses they…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Student Teachers, Practicums, Language Proficiency
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Wong, D. F. K.; Poon, A.; Kwok, Y. C. Lai – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2011
Background: Caring for a child with intellectual disability can be stressful. No data on the longer-term effects of cognitive-behavioural treatment (CBT) on parents from a Chinese-speaking background who have children with intellectual disabilities are available in the literature. This study attempted to fill this research gap by examining the…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Maintenance, Mental Retardation, Quality of Life
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Wang, Yuping – CALICO Journal, 2004
This article provides a report on NetMeeting as an appropriate fourth-generation tool for interactive language learning in distance mode. It follows on earlier research by Wang and Sun (2000, 2001) on the most urgent problem facing distance language education--lack of provision of oral-visual interaction and the emergence of a fourth-generation…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Evaluation Criteria, Interaction