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Pedagogic Affect and African International Students' Attunement to Chinese Language Learning
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Wen Xu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The growth of the Chinese language in African countries and African students' consequent flocking into Chinese higher education are both emergent phenomena. This partly explains the lack of empirical research on this body of student migrants and their Chinese language learning. This paper applies Watkins' theorisation on pedagogic affect to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
'It's Difficult but Important': Toward a Model of African Students' Chinese Language Identity Development in Higher Education
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Yanfeng Mao; Wendi Adair; Jianhong Su – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This longitudinal inductive research unpacks the process of African post-secondary students' Chinese language identity (CLI) with the purpose of exploring a model of CLI development. We traced how 12 multilingual African students developed their CLI during the first year in a Chinese university. Data coded from three rounds of interviews conducted…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction