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Meng, Qian; Zhu, Chang; Cao, Chun – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
This study examined global competence of Chinese international students sojourning in a non-Anglophone European country as a mediator between foreign language proficiency (i.e., English and local language) and social and academic adaptation, and social connectedness in international community. A sample of 206 Chinese students in Belgium responded…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Adjustment, Student Adjustment
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Salomo, Dorothe; Liszkowski, Ulf – Child Development, 2013
Daily activities of forty-eight 8- to 15-month-olds and their interlocutors were observed to test for the presence and frequency of triadic joint actions and deictic gestures across three different cultures: Yucatec-Mayans (Mexico), Dutch (Netherlands), and Shanghai-Chinese (China). The amount of joint action and deictic gestures to which infants…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Cultural Differences