Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students Zhang-Wu Qianqian
Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students Zhang-Wu Qianqian Higher education institutions in Anglophone countries often rely on standardized English language…
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Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students Zhang-Wu Qianqian
Higher education institutions in Anglophone countries often rely on standardized English language proficiency exams to assess the linguistic capabilities of their multilingual international students. 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. However, there is often a mismatch between these scores and the initial experiences of international students in both academic and social contexts.
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