Jun Liu - Asian Students Classroom Communication Patterns in U.S. Universities: An Emic Perspective (Contemporary Studies in Second Language Learning)

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ASIAN STUDENTS CLASSROOM COMMUNICATION PATTERNS IN U.S. UNIVERSITIES

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An Emic Perspective

Jun Liu

Contemporary Studies in Second Language Learning

Elizabeth B. Bernhardt, Series Editor

Ablex Publishing

Westport, ConnecticutLondon

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Liu, Jun.
Asian students classroom communication patterns in U.S. universities: an
emic perspective / Jun Liu.
p. cm.(Contemporary studies in second language learning)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes.
ISBN 1567506208 (alk. paper)
1. English languageStudy and teachingAsian speakers.
2. English languageStudy and teachingUnited States. 3. Intercultural
communicationUnited States. 4. Students, ForeignUnited States. I. Title.
II. Series.
PE1130.A2 L58 2001
378.19829995073dc21 2001022176

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

Copyright 2001 by Jun Liu

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2001022176

ISBN: 1-56750-620-8

First published in 2001
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Asian Students Classroom Communication Patterns in U.S. Universities examines what adaptive cultural transformation means to Asian students and what Asian students adaptive cultural transformation means to those around them by focusing on one social and academic setting: content classes in American colleges and universities where Asian students are immersed with American students and other international students. This book has three goals. The first goal is to explore and describe Asian students classroom communication patterns through their oral classroom participation modes in their content courses with reference of their perceptions of classroom participation as influenced by the interaction among sociocultural, linguistic, cognitive, affective, and pedagogical factors. The second goal is to explain and interpret Asian students classroom communication patterns in association with their various perceptions from an emic perspective. The third goal is to call for Asian students awareness and acquisition of adaptive cultural transformation competence. Because of my own journey of adaptive cultural transformation from an Asian student to an Asian professor in the United States, I believe that Asian students should strive to achieve adaptive cultural transformation competence consisting of social identity negotiation skills, cultural-sensitivity knowledge and mindful reflexivity, and communicative competence. Asian students construction of their cultural transformation competence also necessitates understanding and support from various communities in the target culture, including ESL and content course instructors, American peers and other international students, American college and university administrators, and other professional resources.