School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS)
Past Conference Proceedings
East Asian Learners Conference
Promoting Partnership: Responding to the Needs of the East Asian Learner in Higher Education
Held at the University of Portsmouth on 12-13 July 2008
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- Joan Cutting and Jianghong Feng - 'Getting them to participate': East Asian students' interaction with tutors in UK seminars
- Jianying Du - The effectiveness of content-based instruction academic EFL writing: a pedagogical case study at Wuhan Law College, China
- Trevor Grimshaw - Problematizing the construct of 'the Chinese learner: insights from ethnographic research
- Trevor Grimshaw - Negotiating an identity in English: the discursive construction and reconstruction of Chinese students
- Maria Leedham - "Enjoyable", "okay", or "rather pointless"? An exploration of Chinese and British students views on innovative and traditional assignment types in UK universities
- Dr. Don Olcott, Jr. - Global Connections Local Impacts: Trends and Developments in Internationalism and Cross-Border Higher Education
- Nick Pilcher - Heuristic models: UK Supervision Experience of Masters dissertations from Chinese learners and UK supervisors
- Nick Pilcher - Getting the most from a Masters dissertation. Learning from others' experiences
- Yuti Ran and Caroline Corney - Icing on the cake or a spanner in the works?
- Helen Spencer-Oatey - 2+2 Programmes with China: Potential Pitfalls and Possibilities
- Paul Stocks and Stella Harvey - Expectation and Experience in the East Asian Learner
- Alastair Sharp - Intercultural rhetoric and language processing: a Hong Kong case study
- Shujie Yao, Bin Wu and Fang Su - Impact of Higher Education Expansion on Social Justice in China: A Spatial and Inter-temporal Analysis
- George Zhang - Confucius Institutes and Chinese Language Teaching in the UK
- Lin Zheng - The Changing Employment Patterning in China The Chinese Students' Employability The Internationalisation of Chinese Universities