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Direct linkLide Yu; Lianghui Cai – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The effectiveness of distance learning primarily depends on the motivation and engagement of students. The aim of this article is to determine whether the developed online course enhances students' motivation to read and their engagement with contemporary American literature. The methodology is based on an experimental design. A mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Distance Education, United States Literature
Li Gao – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Reading is one of the crucial aspects of the learning process. The learning efficiency depends on the motivation and involvement of students. The paper aims to determine whether the developed online course enhances student motivation and engagement in contemporary American literature. For this purpose, questionnaires were used. The sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Online Courses, Learner Engagement
Download full textBrown, Joanne – 2002
When an educator was invited by a Chinese university to teach a seminar in American drama, she used "family drama" as the organizing theme of her course because she was (and is) convinced that from Eugene O'Neill on, American playwrights have been obsessed with family disintegration and the failure of family harmony. This paper is an…
Descriptors: Drama, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWu, Echo H. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2005
This paper examines the Chinese literature on giftedness and talented performance (TP) and compares its dominant theoretical features with some influential models to be found in the North American literature. One significant feature to emerge from the Chinese literature is a deemphasis on giftedness as an innate ability and an emphasis on the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, United States Literature, Secondary School Teachers
De Mille, Barbara M. – ADE Bulletin, 1982
Recounts an American teacher's experience of teaching English at a university in China and includes advice to others considering a similar teaching experience. (AEA)
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Literature, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Beidler, Peter G., Ed. – 1989
Designed to be of interest to anyone concerned with the study of American literature in China or anyone contemplating teaching there, this paper is an edited version of the taped transcript of a panel discussion among five Fulbright professors of American literature and American studies i China. The paper begins with brief, focused introductory…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries
Grove, Neal, Ed. – 1986
The teaching of English in the People's Republic of China has received much attention in recent years. The two papers included here deal with the teaching of the English language and English and American literature to Chinese students. The first, a summary of a questionnaire survey, "Why Bother about Culture in English Language…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Enrichment, Cultural Exchange, English for Special Purposes
Peer reviewedKrysl, Marilyn – Journal of Higher Education, 1984
The experiences of a teacher who lectured undergraduates in the People's Republic of China on the American short story and taught a refresher course for Chinese teachers of English at the Tianjin Foreign Language Institute are presented. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Foreign Culture
Grove, Neal, Ed. – 1986
Two articles address teaching English in the Peoples Republic of China. In "Why Bother About Culture in English Language Teaching?," Hu Wenzhong attempts to determine opinions about the importance of awareness of cultural traits through a study of 36 English-speaking teachers at Chinese institutions and 64 Chinese students who had…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
Brown, Joanne – 1995
An American instructor taught a 5-week course on the family in American drama to a group of graduate English majors on the campus of Hebei Teachers' University in the People's Republic of China. The instructor learned as much about Chinese culture as the students learned about American culture. Lecture is the standard pedagogy even in graduate…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Chinese Culture, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
