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An Ecological Perspective of Chinese International Students’ Experiences of Social Network Development in a Canadian University
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This study explores the experiences of Chinese international doctoral students as they navigate the development of social support networks within a Canadian university, framed through an Ecological Perspective. The research involved six graduate students from China who participated in this...
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Chinese Educators' Intercultural Dialogue with the Dao De Jing and Macbeth: A Hermeneutic Inquiry
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The limited scholarship available on the incorporation of Shakespeare’s plays into an intercultural curriculum has led me to contemplate the prospects of fostering dialogue between Shakespeare and the wisdom traditions of Chinese Daoism in higher education within a globalized context. This...
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Fall 2012
Task basked language teaching (TBLT) is an innovative second language teaching approach that has gained abundant theoretical support from second language acquisition (SLA) research. However, there is evidence that the conceptions formed by teachers can differ from the descriptions and criteria...
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Engaging with the Question of Plagiarism from the Perspective of Confucian Heritage Culture: A Challenge to the Internationalization of Western Universities
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With the globalization and internationalization of higher education, an increasing number of international students choose to come to Canada to pursue their education. Coming from different social, cultural and educational backgrounds, these international students encounter in Canadian academia...
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Gaging The Transformative Potential of Second Language Education: Language Educators' Understanding of Interculturality and Criticality
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Second language education is well suited to promote transformative outcomes due to its unique character (the importance of both declarative and procedural knowledge), the close connection between language and culture, and the entrenched humanistic tradition within the field (Musumeci, 1997;...
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Newcomer Learners’ Experiences of Literacy in Canadian High Schools: An Interpretive Inquiry
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While diverse classrooms are an inevitable reality in educational settings today, our knowledge of literacy learning and development in a new language during the adolescent years is limited (Fitzerald, 2017; Uccelli, 2023; Wilcox & Jeffrey, 2018). As there is a close relationship between...
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Parental Empowerment via Instructional Technology in the Context of Learning Arabic as a Second Language
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Parents often show disempowerment in relation to supporting their children with schoolwork (Hoover-Dempsey et al., 2005; Hornby & Lafaele, 2011; Peña, 2000; Thomsen, 2011). In the case of Arabic learning, parents typically cannot involve themselves in their children’s Arabic learning due to...
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Professional identity and the 'native speaker': An investigation of essentializing discourses in TESOL
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This study explores the ways that native speakers are represented in different discourses. It combines the personal with the empirical by starting with narratives of professional development, followed by a corpus analysis of how native speakers are defined, and ending with a critical discourse...
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Toward an Intercultural Ethics of "Original Difficulty" in ESL Curriculum: A Hermeneutic Inquiry
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Global occurrences in recent times have highlighted the degeneration of conversation and relationships at all levels, and the ways that education might disrupt such harmful grammars of engagement have been explored by scholars writing in the field of intercultural communicative competence and...
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Towards a New Intercultural Methodology in Response to Teachers’ Challenges from the New Curriculum Innovation in China
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The new English Curriculum Standard reform in China is based on Western curriculum theories with an emphasis on a student-centered, communication-oriented, and activities-based approach to teaching rather than on the traditional Confucian heritage culture with the emphasis on a teacher-centered,...