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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Chinese graduate students"”.
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Sojourner adjustment: the experience of wives of mainland Chinese graduate students
Thousands of Chinese women from the People's Republic of China (PRC, or commonly known as Mainland China) come to the united states hoping to be re-united with their husbands and to support them in finishing their education. They all face similar kinds of experiences on arrival. They mayor may not …
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Studying in the United States: Chinese Graduate Students' Experiences of Academic Adjustment
International students add value to American higher education in a variety of ways, by serving as student resources, adding diversity to the academy, enhancing cultural exchange, and promoting internationalization of American higher education institutions. However, many international students …
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Identity development of Chinese graduate students in the United States : a phenomenological investigation
… the lived experiences of identity development of Chinese graduate students in the United States. Through in-depth interviews with 15 participants at a Midwestern research university, the study found that the majority of Chinese graduate students came with a strong student identity that conflated …
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Understanding the Choice of Chinese Graduate Students' English Learning Strategies in a Canadian Context
This study, entitled “Understanding the Choice of Chinese Graduate Students’ English Learning Strategies in a Canadian Context,” explores the English learning strategies employed by six graduate students from China after their arrival in Canada, and documents and analyses changes in their learning …
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Exploring Chinese Graduate Students' Learner Identity in Group Work in Western Academia: Perceptions, Representations and Challenges
… and seek the development of these in university graduates (Cranmer, 2006). Universities are increasingly adopting group-based assessment tasks, and teachers often assign student group projects to enhance students' learning (Bacon, 2005). It is an effective teaching practice in many regards …
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‘Cultures of learning’ preferences among Chinese graduate students studying in the US and their impacts on learning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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An Investigation of Chinese Graduate Student Understanding of Academic Integrity in U's Higher Education
… higher education may be more of an issue among Chinese graduate students. When Chinese graduate students are accused of plagiarizing an implicit assumption often exists that poor language skills or lack of integrity may be the cause. The failure to consider cross-cultural issues in learning may …
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Chinese Female Graduate Students' Academic Socialization Across Disciplines - Perspectives On Language, Culture, And Gender
… socialization experience of three female Chinese graduate students in the United States. The ethnographic case study collected data from various sources such as classroom observations, open-ended questionnaires, interviews with participants and with their course instructors, and written …
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The Role of Face-to-Face Interpersonal Communication with Different Social Networks in the Development of Intercultural Communication Competence
… competence. Data were collected from 116 Chinese graduate students studying at universities in southeastern United States and also those who newly graduated from those graduate programs and had been working in the United States. The findings suggest that host and interethnic face-to-face …
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A case study on implicit and explicit online pronunciation tutoring to Chinese international graduate students
… Sturm, 2013; Wei, 2006). Especially for the students who received their secondary and undergraduate education in China, where the negative washback from exam-driven English teaching styles is still prominent. This study compared the progress of two Chinese graduate students in a Midwestern …
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Cohesion and coherence in Chinese ESL writing
… examined cohesion and coherence features of Chinese ESL writings, explored the similarities and the differences between Chinese and English, and investigated the role of language transfer and interference in Chinese ESL writings. Four Chinese graduate students each composed two expository …
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Apology behavior: A comparison between native speakers of American English and Chinese English learners
… study has been done with native speakers of Chinese. The present study is motivated by a series of studies done by Olshtain and Cohen on· apology behavior, and is an attempt a) to expand the scope of the study of apology behavior to include a non-western language; b) to determine the …
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Essays on Identity-Based Bias and Discrimination
… scientific collaboration between U.S. and Chinese researchers, and researcher productivity. Using a difference-in-differences approach with CV and publication data, ethnically Chinese graduate students became 15% less likely to enroll in U.S. Ph.D. programs and 4% less likely to remain in …
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Performative Possibilities in the Development of Protagonistic Agency Among Graduate Students in China
… self-reflexivity and critical praxis among students. Furthermore, little research of this nature has found its way into educational research in international settings. This current research project involves eight Chinese graduate student volunteers from a teacher training university in …