"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"-- Provided by publisher.

7.Cultures of Learning and Student Participation: Chinese Learners in a Multicultural English Class in Australia / Jemry Barnett -- 8. Getting the Big Picture: A Longitudinal Study of Adaptation and Identity in a New Zealand University / Cynthia White -- 9. An Emotional Journey of Change: The Case of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education / Qing Gu -- 10. Intercultural Adaptation of Chinese Postgraduate Students and their UK Tutors / Divya Jindal-Snape -- 11. Intercultural Adaptation -- It is a Two-Way Process: Examples from a British MBA Programme / Jill Bourne -- 12. Adapting to Western Norms of Critical Argumentation and Debate / Kathy Durkin -- 13. Different Waves Crashing into Different Coastlines? Mainland Chinese Learners doing Postgraduate Dissertations in the UK / Lixian Jin.