dc.contributor.advisor | Lemon, Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | Bryant, Andrea Dawn | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-19T16:37:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-19T16:37:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-08 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11244/44929 | |
dc.description.abstract | There are currently several hundred thousand Chinese students studying abroad, yet knowledge about their experiences is mostly limited to anecdote and caricature. This autoethnography provides a more authentic account based on a year-long journey with 27 Chinese international students in four cohorts at a college preparatory institute in Germany. I discuss Chinese student mobility and describe how the fields of educational psychology, second language acquisition, and higher education have traditionally homogenized students from China. In chapters two and three, I explain why autoethnography is ideal for this inquiry and illustrate how engaging with Chinese students as individuals, rather than as a collective entity, deepened my perspective of three situations and events. I then describe the identities, motivations, and social behaviors of several learners, and conclude that the widespread notion that Chinese students are all the same propagates a tradition that frames the West as superior to the East. | en_US |
dc.language | en | en_US |
dc.subject | autoethnography; SLA; higher education; study abroad; chinese international students; germany | en_US |
dc.title | From it to you: An autoethnographic journey with Chinese users of German in Germany | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Bisel, Ryan | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Schutjer, Karin | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Sullivan, Joseph | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Williamson, Jason | |
dc.date.manuscript | 2016 | |
dc.thesis.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
ou.group | College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics | en_US |
shareok.orcid | 0000-0002-6111-3258 | en_US |