Chinese Overseas Students and Intercultural Learning Environments: Academic Adjustment, Adaptation and Experience

Zhu, Jiani

What happens when East travels West? In today’s increasingly globalized world, these collisions are becoming increasingly common in universities– especially due to the growth of migratory students . As the largest international population studying abroad in the world, Chinese students’ learning experience in an intercultural environment calls for more attention. This book covers an array of problems common to Chinese students studying abroad and explores how these students academically adjust to an intercultural environment. It also highlights how they familiarize themselves with the education system, ranging from the types of courses, academic tasks and examinations to the structure of the education as a whole in the host country, as they negotiate the gulf between academic expectations at home versus those in the host university environment and communicate with domestic lecturers and students. 

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-06-17

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137533920

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53393-7

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 259.0