Making Visible "Hidden" Intentions and Potential Choices: International Students in Intercultural Communication

Autor/in	Tran, Ly Thi
Titel	Making Visible "Hidden" Intentions and Potential Choices: International Students in Intercultural Communication
Quelle	In: Language and Intercultural Communication, 9 (2009) 4, S.271-284 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-8477
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Intercultural Communication; Foreign Students; Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Writing (Composition); Academic Discourse; Student Attitudes; Case Studies; Asians; Graduate Students; Economics; Australia; China; Vietnam + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Schreibübung; Discourse; Diskurs; Schülerverhalten; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Australien
Abstract	The study reported in this paper examines the experiences of Chinese and Vietnamese international students in engaging in their institutional written discourse at an Australian university. The study highlights the significance of exploring the real accounts of the students as the "insiders" and uncovering students' individual potential choices and intentions as their "seemingly unrecognized" values in producing their own texts in English as a second language. In particular, based on international students' reflection on their intentions and potential choices in academic practices, the study signals how the taken-for-granted institutional conventions may contribute to silencing or marginalizing the possibilities for alternative approaches to knowledge and communication within the higher education institutional context. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10