'But when you are doing your exams it is the same as in China' - Chinese students adjusting to western approaches to teaching and learning

Cambridge Journal of Education

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 407-424

  Wang, Lihong ^a   Byram, Michael ^b  

^a BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

academic adjustments; Chinese students; cultures of learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860772008     PISSN: 0305764X     EISSN: 14693577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2011.625001     Document Type: Article

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