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Li, Xiaoqing; Roberts, Joanne; Yan, Yanni; Tan, Hui – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
International strategic alliances are notorious for their high failure rate. Increased inter-partner conflict resulting from ineffective cross-cultural management is perceived to be one of the key reasons for unsatisfactory alliance performance. Driven by globalization, universities are extending into foreign markets through the establishment of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Cultural Differences, Partnerships in Education
Liu, Lisha – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
Qualitative research strategy has been widely adopted by educational researchers in order to improve the quality of their empirical studies. This paper aims to introduce a generic inductive approach, pragmatic and flexible in qualitative theoretical support, by describing its application in a study of non-English major undergraduates' English…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students
Trevelyan, James – Advances in Engineering Education, 2016
Research on engineering practice is scarce and sharing of qualitative research data can reduce the effort required for an aspiring researcher to obtain enough data from engineering workplaces to draw generalizable conclusions, both qualitative and quantitative. This paper describes how a large shareable qualitative data set on engineering…
Descriptors: Engineering, Research, Qualitative Research, Interviews
Fu, Xiao – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study is to examine whether the implementation of CL in an intensive reading class has a positive effect on improving the passive situation of students, whether it helps activate their enthusiasm for and ease their anxiety of participation in language class activities, and whether it is helpful to their improvement of English proficiency. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Cooperative Learning, Learning Strategies
Yan, Chunmei – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
This paper reports on a study that examines decisive factors for longer-term sustainability of cross-cultural teacher training initiatives in China. It focuses on teacher trainees' perspectives of a Sino-British adult education English language teaching project based in Central China. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were employed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Inservice Teacher Education, Adult Education
Cong, Zhen; Silverstein, Merril – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2008
This study examined the influence of intergenerational assistance with household chores and personal care from sons, daughters, and daughters-in-law on the depressive symptoms of older adults in rural China. The sample derived from rural Anhui Province, a region with a strong hierarchy of support preferences that leads with sons and their…
Descriptors: Daughters, Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology), Family (Sociological Unit)
Cowdery, Joy R. – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2010
As rural Appalachian schools in Ohio in the United States struggle to overcome institutional bias and lack of understanding to accommodate the needs of the growing population of immigrant students from diverse countries, immigrant parents struggle to fit into a new cultural environment and to secure the best education for their children. This…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Rural Schools, Qualitative Research, School Districts
Tan, Zhi – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2007
This paper reports the findings of a study examining classroom questioning behavior and its impacts on students' development. A triangulation was conducted to collect data: observations of nine university English lessons, semi-structured interviews with six teachers and focus group discussions with three groups of students. The data showed that…
Descriptors: Discipline, Focus Groups, Educational Change, English (Second Language)
Li, Daguo – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2006
The present study sets out to examine motivation to learn English by Chinese research students in an informal setting. Data were collected, using semi-structured interviews, from four research students at two points in time during their first year in the UK. The main findings are: they believed that learning English was important; their main goal…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Edwards, Rachel – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2006
This paper examines the widespread practice of Chinese learners choosing (and sometimes refusing) to adopt English and Anglicised names. Data collected from questionnaires and interviews with both students and teachers are analysed in order to arrive at an understanding of why such a practice has arisen and continues to be perpetuated throughout…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption (Ideas), English (Second Language), Data Collection
Shaw, Sue – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: This article considers the extent to which a corporate university transcends national boundaries through an examination of the operation of Motorola University in China. The aim is to extend understanding of the role and function of a corporate university and the human resource management (HRM) convergence/divergence debate within an…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Foreign Countries, Corporations, Cultural Context