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East Meets West: Chinese ESL Students in North American Higher Education
Jinyan Huang
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Description for East Meets West: Chinese ESL Students in North American Higher Education
Hardcover. Editor(s): Huang, Jinyan. Num Pages: 171 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KB; JFFS; JNM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 262 x 184 x 14. Weight in Grams: 480.
The number of English-as-a-second-language (ESL) students has more than doubled since the 1980s and has recently grown significantly at North American universities; Chinese ESL students from the People's Republic of China represent the single largest group of ESL students. These Chinese ESL students have generally received their K-12 education and many of them have received their undergraduate degrees in China. Research has started to show that they experience considerable challenges in their academic studies at North American universities, e.g., their unfamiliarity with North American culture, their inadequate English proficiency, their social and emotional challenges, their financial difficulties, etc. These challenges ... Read more
The number of English-as-a-second-language (ESL) students has more than doubled since the 1980s and has recently grown significantly at North American universities; Chinese ESL students from the People's Republic of China represent the single largest group of ESL students. These Chinese ESL students have generally received their K-12 education and many of them have received their undergraduate degrees in China. Research has started to show that they experience considerable challenges in their academic studies at North American universities, e.g., their unfamiliarity with North American culture, their inadequate English proficiency, their social and emotional challenges, their financial difficulties, etc. These challenges ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
171
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
171
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781626181953
SKU
V9781626181953
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