Learner's privilege and responsibility : a critical examination of the experiences and perspectives of learners from Chinese backgrounds in the United States / edited by Wen Ma (Le Moyne College); Chuang Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ma, Wen, editor.

Wang, Chuang, editor.

Series:

Language, literacy, and learning.

Literacy, language, and learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese students--United States.

Chinese students.

Education--China.

Education.

Education--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Critical examination of the experiences and perspectives of learners from Chinese backgrounds in the United States

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014.

Summary:

This book is about the learner side of the teaching and learning equilibrium, centering on the educational experiences and perspectives of Chinese students in the United States. These students ranged from kindergarteners, adolescents, undergraduate, graduate, to adult learners, across the educational spectrum. Because Chinese students are the largest cohort among all international students in the U.S., and their prior educational experiences and perspectives in China are so different from those in the U.S., exploring who they are, what their learning experiences have been, and how their learning needs can be better met, may not only allow U.S. educators to teach them more effectively, but also help the educational community in both countries better learn about and from each other.The chapters in the book examine the constructs of learner privilege and responsibility in the teaching and learning equation, cultural and linguistic challenges and transitional adjustments, self-concept, learning strategies, comparison and contrast of differences and similarities between Chinese and American students, and/or critical reflections on significant issues confronting Chinese learners. While each chapter is situated in its own research literature and connects with its own teaching and learning practices, all of them are united around the overarching themes of the book: the experiences and perspectives of diverse learners from Chinese backgrounds in the United States. The chapters also flesh out some of the larger theoretical/pedagogical issues between education in China and in the United States, provide useful lenses for rethinking about and better understanding their differences and similarities, as well as offer pertinent suggestions about how the educational community in both countries may benefit from learning about and from each other.

Contents:

Preface / Guofang Li

Part I

Introduction

Chapter 1. Why the educational community should care about the experiences and perspectives of Chinese students in the United States / Wen Ma and Chuang Wang

Chapter 2. Understanding the cultural legacy of Chinese students / June A. Gordon

Part II. Chinese international students at American universities

Chapter 3. Connecting the dots from the lived experiences of Chinese learners in america / Miranda Lin

Chapter 4. Different educational norms and linguistic proficiencies: Looking at Chinese students' classroom participation and social interaction on a U.S. University campus / Stephen Foulkrod and Wen Ma

Chapter 5. Understanding Chinese international students' difficulties and strategies in learning English for academic purposes / Chuang Wang and Huifang Zuo

Chapter 6. Making academic oral presentations: Chinese graduate students' language socialization / Sue Wang and Gulbahar Beckett

Chapter 7. A cross-cultural student teaching experience: The story of a Chinese student teaching in the United States / Ran Hu and Judith Smith

Part III. Teaching diverse Chinese learners across the educational spectrum

Chapter 8. Learning to write by emergent bilingual writers using two languages / Xun Zheng

Chapter 9. From canton to san francisco: 1.5-generation Chinese youth's educational perspectives / Xiangyan Liu

Chapter 10. An introspective look at a short-term summer study program for Chinese professors of English as a foreign language / Robert Summers, Josie Prado, and Jeffrey Hayes

Chapter 11. Encouragement and participation in a community-based adult esl writing class: Perspectives from two Chinese learners / Heather B. Finn

Part IV. Self-studies by learners from Chinese backgrounds

Chapter 12. Reflections on teaching-as-telling in america and China: Heidegger / Lao Tzu, and Dewey, Jie Yu

Chapter 13. The winding road: A female immigrant's educational experiences / Rong Chang, Gresilda A. Tilley-Lubbs, and Naina Bhandari

Chapter 14. Opening up aesthetic possibilities for cross-cultural education / Le Kang

Chapter 15. Becoming an American without losing my Chinese identity / Fanni Liu Coward

List of contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781623965914

1623965918

OCLC:

876734770