Researching Intercultural Learning

1. Introduction: Research and Levels of Intercultural Learning
Lixian Jin, Martin Cortazzi

Part I. Researching Transformations of Cultures of Learning through Internationalization

2. Cultures of Learning and Writing in the US Academy
Eli Hinkel

3. Inter-Perspective Pedagogy: Rethinking Culture and Learning in Multicultural Higher Education in the United Kingdom
Thushari Welikala

4. The Danish Educational Tradition: Multiple Heritages and International Challenges and ‘Conversation’
Jane Vinther, Gordon Slethaug

5. Trilingual Paths: Cultures of Learning and the Use of Cantonese, English or Putonghua within a Hong Kong Primary School
Phil Glenwright, Wang Lixun

Part II. Intercultural Learning in Developing Language and Academic Skills

6. Peer Assistance in an English Immersion Context in China
Xiaohua Liang, Lixian Jin, Martin Cortazzi

7. Researching Intercultural Communication in a UK Higher Education Context
Joan Turner, Masako K. Hiraga

8. ‘Discuss, Analyse, Define …’ Non-traditional Students Come to Terms with Cultures of Learning in the UK
Kendall Richards, Nick Pilcher

9. ‘It’s Totally Different’: Undergraduate Chinese Students Learning to Write in a New Zealand University
Gillian Skyrme

Part III. Transcultural Adjustment and Bridging Distances

10. Teaching German in Eastern Europe and China: Reciprocal Relationships between Teaching and Learning Cultures
Markus Lux, Christian Wochele

11. Chinese Students’ Attitudes towards Their Learning of French in France
Wang Jinjing, Sophie Bailly

12. Supporting Intercultural Learning: For Beginners’ Chinese Language Learners at The Open University, UK
Inma Álvarez, Kan Qian

13. Adjusting to Differing Cultures of Learning: The Experience of Semester-Long Exchange Students from Hong Kong
Jane Jackson

14. Internet-Mediated Intercultural English Language Teaching and Learning: An Overview of Challenges and Opportunities in China
Liang Wang

15. Postscript
Lixian Jin, Martin Cortazzi

Keywords: Education, Language Education, Language Teaching, International and Comparative Education, Linguistics, general