Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students by Qi

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Drawing on a digital ethnography of Chinese international students' first semester languaging practices, this book examines how they use their multilingual and multi-modal communicative repertories to facilitate languaging across contexts, in order to suggest how universities might better serve the needs of international students.

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Higher education institutions in Anglophone countries often rely on standardized English language proficiency exams to assess the linguistic capabilities of their multilingual international students. However, there is often a mismatch between these scores and the initial experiences of international students in both academic and social contexts. Drawing on a digital ethnography of Chinese international students' first semester languaging practices, this book examines their challenges, needs and successes on their initial languaging journeys in higher education. It analyzes how they use their rich multilingual and multi-modal communicative repertories to facilitate languaging across contexts, in order to suggest how university support systems might better serve the needs of multilingual international students.

Author Biography

Qianqian Zhang-Wu is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing, Northeastern University, USA. Her research interests include multilingual writing and TESOL.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementPrefacePart 1Chapter 1: Who, Why, and What about Chinese International StudentsChapter 2: Languaging across Borders: Linguistic Demands, Challenges and an Integrated FrameworkChapter 3: A Four-Month In-Depth Investigation: An Overview of Study DesignPart 2Chapter 4: Chinese International Students are Not Chinese International StudentsChapter 5: First Semester Languaging Journeys of Three Regular High StudentsChapter 6: First Semester Languaging Journeys of Two American High StudentsChapter 7: Revisiting Within-Group Variabilities among Chinese International StudentsPart 3Chapter 8: An Overview of Myths and RealitiesChapter 9: Myth 1: TOEFL Results Accurately Predict International Students' Ability to Function Linguistically on College Entry Chapter 10: Myth 2: An English-Only Policy is Necessary in College Classrooms to Help International Students Improve Their Linguistic Functioning in EnglishChapter 11: Myth 3: First-Year Writing Guarantees International Students' Successful Writing Performances in Content-Area CoursesChapter 12: Myth 4: English is Responsible for All the Challenges Facing Chinese International StudentsChapter 13: Myth 5: Chinese International Students are Well Supported in American Higher Education Linguistically and AcademicallyChapter 14: Revisiting Myths and RealitiesAppendix AAppendix BReferences

Review

Employing various ethnographic methods as well as conducting high-quality discourse analysis, Zhang-Wu offers important and indispensable ways to really engage and teach Chinese students from their own perspectives. For those of us interested in diverse languaging practices, educational equity for international students and progressive pedagogies for English language users from various linguistic backgrounds, this book is very necessary. * Vershawn Ashanti Young, University of Waterloo, Canada *Through a vigorous study of Chinese undergraduate students' translingual lives in the United States, author Zhang-Wu debunks five assumptions held by administrators about these students' academic preparedness. Her study helps raise critical issues of social justice for international students, contributing to discussions on monolingualism and racism in American higher education. * Xiaoye You, Pennsylvania State University, USA *

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Higher education institutions in Anglophone countries often rely on standardized English language proficiency exams to assess the linguistic capabilities of their multilingual international students. However, there is often a mismatch between these scores and the initial experiences of international students in both academic and social contexts. Drawing on a digital ethnography of Chinese international students' first semester languaging practices, this book examines their challenges, needs and successes on their initial languaging journeys in higher education. It analyzes how they use their rich multilingual and multi-modal communicative repertories to facilitate languaging across contexts, in order to suggest how university support systems might better serve the needs of multilingual international students.

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Through a vigorous study of Chinese undergraduate students' translingual lives in the United States, author Zhang-Wu debunks five assumptions held by administrators about these students' academic preparedness. Her study helps raise critical issues of social justice for international students, contributing to discussions on monolingualism and racism in American higher education.

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Sheds light on the ways higher education institutions might better support their multilingual international students

Details ISBN1788926196 Publisher Multilingual Matters Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1788926196 ISBN-13 9781788926195 Format Paperback Series New Perspectives on Language and Education Imprint Multilingual Matters Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 280 Publication Date 2021-11-15 AU Release Date 2021-11-15 NZ Release Date 2021-11-15 UK Release Date 2021-11-15 Author Qianqian Zhang-Wu Subtitle Journeys of Chinese International Students Alternative 9781788926898 DEWEY 428.00711 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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