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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Chinese school"”.
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Teaching the new English curriculum in a Chinese school : An ethnographic study.
… a new English curriculum (NEC) for high schools. The NEC promotes communicative language teaching (CLT), particularly task based language teaching (TBLT). This thesis reports an ethnographic study exploring the experience of five Chinese teachers of English in their implementation of the …
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Norms and Reasons: Modernity and subjecthood inside (and outside) a Chinese school
… to understand how historical developments of Chinese modernity motivated mass educational migration (Chapter 3), thus identifying how top-down decisions to modernise inspired and sustained perhaps unexpected pluralistic perspectives on the Chinese nation-state (Chapter 4). Third, to examine …
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LIKE A DUCK ON WATER: CHINESE ACADEMIC MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR SUBURBAN WEEKEND CHINESE SCHOOL
… experiences of hundreds of thousands of mainland Chinese who, since 1979, have come to the U.S. primarily for graduate study and mostly settled here afterwards in dispersed university or corporate jobs and suburban residences. After the Immigration Act of 1990, many of them have become visible …
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On Not Learning Chinese: Multiple Chineseness of the Chinese Schools in the Philippines
… thesis aims to investigate the multiplicity of Chineseness produced in the Chinese schools in the Philippines. The study draws on participant observation based on my one-year teaching in a Philippine-Chinese school, on-site interviews with students, parents, administrators, educationalists and …
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Studying the Hyphen: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Selected Works by Amy Tan
… the hyphen presents many different issues. For Chinese-Americans, what part of a person is Chinese, and what part American? Maxine Hong Kingston raises these ideas in her novel The Woman Warrior, where on one hand her protagonist embraces her Chinese heritage, and refers to herself as a "Chinese …
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Influence of Reading Proficiency on Text Representation in L1 and L2
… Study 1 compared text representation in L1 among Chinese school children from second grade, fourth grade and sixth grade. The main findings were that (1) second graders retained strong representation at surface level; sixth graders constructed stronger situation model than younger students; (2) …
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Reframing Chinese animation: from classicism to postmodernism in post-1949 non-commercial Chinese animated films
This thesis focuses on Chinese non-commercial animated films produced from 1949 to date, with the aim of remapping and reframing Chinese animation in the light of existing theories, critiques, and frameworks drawn from studies in animation, film, and screen media. I suggest that Chinese animation …
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The Validity Of The Kinetic Family Drawing As A Measure Of Self-Concept And Parent/Child Relationship Among Chinese Children In Taiwan
… <p>Valid psychological instruments for use with Chinese children in Taiwan are scarce. The present study attempted to validate the Kinetic Family Drawing as a measure of the self in the family context as well as the perceived parent-child relationship among Chinese children in Taiwan, and to …
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High School Principals' Values and their Symbolic and Cultural Leadership Approaches to Character Education in China
… used to imbed character education in high schools in China. In addition, there is a lack of published studies and reports investigating the revival between character and moral education in the Chinese school system. Without additional information, it is impossible to understand and develop …
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Language Socialization of Chinese Children in the American Midwest: Learning to Write in American Preschool, Chinese Sunday School, and at Home
<p>Early literacy studies in American preschool, Chinese school and home settings have reported very different sets of beliefs and practices about writing and learning. However, few studies have explored the cultural underpinnings and the socialization role of such differing beliefs and practices …
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The Voice of Parents, Students, and Teachers Regarding Chinese Heritage Schools in Southeast Texas
… on and experiences at community-based Chinese heritage schools (CHSs) in Southeast Texas. Their voices can be seen as critical inquiries that truly represent the phenomenon of after-school Chinese language education in the United States. With in-depth interviews and content analysis, …
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The nature and value of teaching and learning Mandarin Chinese as a school subject in South Africa: a case study of language and literacy ideologies in a public secondary school in South Africa
In 2014 Mandarin Chinese was officially introduced as a second addi9onal language in South Africa's school curriculum. With China's growing status and influence in the world, South Africa's current posi9oning within the BRICS and South Africa's strong rela9onship with China has raised the …