Negotiating differences in learning and intercultural communication: Ethnic Chinese Students in a New Zealand University

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 294-307

  Holmes, Prue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chinese learners; ethnic Chinese students; intercultural communication; international education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993737915     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1080569904268141     Document Type: Article

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