A New Representation of Chinese Learners [electronic resource] : Experiences of Chinese Learners of English in Tertiary Sino-Australian Programs in China / by Yingmei Luo.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education ; 13Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021Edition: 1st ed. 2021Description: XVII, 138 p. 8 illus. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789811621529
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 418.0071 23
LOC classification:
  • P51-59.4
Online resources:
Contents:
1 Is this your idea of English teaching -- 2 Setting the scene: The Qunxi program -- 3 Foreign friends -- 4 Headless flies -- 5 Precious golden sentences -- 6 Confined lively little butterflies -- 7 'We are similar to Western youngsters'.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: This book examines Chinese tertiary students' experiences of learning English in Sino-Australian programs in China. Using an institutional ethnography, the book examines one well-established Sino-Australian program based at a Chinese university. The book explores the ways that participant students used the Chinese words, tropes and their meanings to describe their English learning experiences with both local Chinese and foreign English teachers. This book introduces an innovative theoretical framework, “representation theory with a multilingual perspective”, to analyse how Chinese students' everyday experiences are constructed and mediated through language, discourse and identity. This framework also highlights graphic examples of how concepts are created in both Chinese and English, and thus serves as a powerful tool for deconstructing dichotomies between China and the West. The aim of this book is, then, two-fold: to show how a novel theoretical lens can help us to develop more nuanced understandings of Chinese students, and to propose a new methodological and theoretical framework through which one can challenge the monolingual subjectivity and parochial views of both Chinese and Western conceptions.
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1 Is this your idea of English teaching -- 2 Setting the scene: The Qunxi program -- 3 Foreign friends -- 4 Headless flies -- 5 Precious golden sentences -- 6 Confined lively little butterflies -- 7 'We are similar to Western youngsters'.

This book examines Chinese tertiary students' experiences of learning English in Sino-Australian programs in China. Using an institutional ethnography, the book examines one well-established Sino-Australian program based at a Chinese university. The book explores the ways that participant students used the Chinese words, tropes and their meanings to describe their English learning experiences with both local Chinese and foreign English teachers. This book introduces an innovative theoretical framework, “representation theory with a multilingual perspective”, to analyse how Chinese students' everyday experiences are constructed and mediated through language, discourse and identity. This framework also highlights graphic examples of how concepts are created in both Chinese and English, and thus serves as a powerful tool for deconstructing dichotomies between China and the West. The aim of this book is, then, two-fold: to show how a novel theoretical lens can help us to develop more nuanced understandings of Chinese students, and to propose a new methodological and theoretical framework through which one can challenge the monolingual subjectivity and parochial views of both Chinese and Western conceptions.

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