Scale Making in Intercultural Communication: Experiences of International Students in Chinese Universities

Autor/inn/en	Song, Yang; Xia, Jinyuan
Titel	Scale Making in Intercultural Communication: Experiences of International Students in Chinese Universities
Quelle	In: Language, Culture and Curriculum, 34 (2021) 4, S.379-397 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0790-8318
DOI	10.1080/07908318.2020.1857392
Schlagwörter	Intercultural Communication; Language Usage; Socialization; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Foreign Students; Foreign Countries; Student Attitudes; Employment Opportunities; Cultural Awareness; Student Role; Cultural Differences; Case Studies; Institutional Characteristics; Universities; Undergraduate Students; Student Characteristics; Official Languages; Mandarin Chinese; Educational Experience; China (Shanghai) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Sprachgebrauch; Socialisation; Sozialisation; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Kultureller Unterschied; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; University; Universität; Office language; Amtssprache; Bildungserfahrung
Abstract	This qualitative study investigates the lived experiences of interculturality among international students enrolled in a top-rated comprehensive university in Shanghai and a key provincial university in China's hinterland. Based on an analysis of narrative interviews with 20 international students from different sociocultural backgrounds, the study examines how the international students' intercultural experiences are simultaneously constrained and facilitated by the linguacultural resources distributed among interactants in the universities and cities. The results suggest that the international students' intercultural experiences differ in substantial ways, mediated by varied distributions of sociolinguistic resources which are closely associated with their academic socialisation through English, local interactional norms, relevant career opportunities, and linguistic norms for everyday interaction with both Chinese students and local residents in the two universities. It is also found that international students play agentive roles to construct and negotiate scales among the sociolinguistic resources at their disposal, in order to create meanings for and reflect upon their lived experiences of interculturality in relation to their previous and prospective life trajectories. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01