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This collection focuses on Chinese learners with original data sets using innovative research methods. It investigates Chinese learners´ learning and language skills, perceptions and particularly the processes of reciprocal intercultural adaptations in a wide international context of Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the UK.

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Figures Tables Diagrams Appendices Acknowledgements Notes On Contributors Introduction: Contexts for Researching Chinese Learners; L.Jin & M.Cortazzi PART I: DEVELOPING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN CHINA Rote Learning in Chinese Culture: Reflecting Active Confucian-Based Memory Strategies; X.Li & J.Cutting Cantonese and English Bodies do Talk: A Cross-Cultural, Metaphor-Metonymy Study on Body-Part Idioms; D.Chung-Hong Leung & P.Crisp More Than a Journey: ´Learning´ in the Metaphors of Chinese Students and Teachers; L.Jin & M.Cortazzi Meeting in the Middle? Intercultural Adaptation in Tertiary Oral English in China; P.Stanley Reticience and Anxiety in Oral English Lessons: A Case Study in China; M.Liu & J.Jackson Intercultural Competence and EFL Teaching in China; Y.Zhou , S.Xu & J.Bayley PART II: INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION: CHINESE LEARNERS IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS Cultures of Learning and Student Participation: Chinese Learners in a Multicultural English Class in Australia; H.Parris-Kidd & J.Barnett Getting the Big Picture: A Longitudinal Study of Adaptation and Identity in a New Zealand University; G.Skyrme & C.White An Emotional Journey of Change: The Case of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education; Q.Gu Intercultural Adaptation of Chinese Postgraduate Students and their UK Tutors; Y.Zhou, K.Topping & D.Jindal-Snape Intercultural Adaptation - It is a Two Way Process: Examples from a British MBA Programme; T.Zhao & J.Bourne Adapting to Western Norms of Critical Argumentation and Debate; K.Durkin Different Waves Crashing into Different Coastlines? Chinese Learners Doing Postgraduate Dissertations in the UK; N.Pilcher, M.Cortazzi & L.Jin Conclusions: What Are We Learning From Research About Chinese Learners? L.Jin & M.Cortazzi Index

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