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“I Told Them I Want to Speak Chinese!” The Struggle of UK Students to Negotiate Language Identities While Studying Chinese in China (2024)
Journal Article
Jin, T., & O’Regan, J. P. (2024). “I Told Them I Want to Speak Chinese!” The Struggle of UK Students to Negotiate Language Identities While Studying Chinese in China. British Journal of Educational Studies, 72(4), 501–528. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2309608

This article leverages interview data from students of Chinese who enrolled at a UK university but pursued a period of study abroad in China, aiming to delve into their negotiation of language identities during their overseas experience. By employing... Read More about “I Told Them I Want to Speak Chinese!” The Struggle of UK Students to Negotiate Language Identities While Studying Chinese in China.

School-Aged Students’ Sustainable Online Learning Engagement during COVID-19: Community of Inquiry in a Chinese Secondary Education Context (2021)
Journal Article
Li, F., Jin, T., Edirisingha, P., & Zhang, X. (2021). School-Aged Students’ Sustainable Online Learning Engagement during COVID-19: Community of Inquiry in a Chinese Secondary Education Context. Sustainability, 13(18), Article 10147. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810147

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread all over the world, many educational institutions have shifted to a full-time online teaching mode. Although online teaching has been widely explored, the unprecedented initiatives of mass-scale full-time onli... Read More about School-Aged Students’ Sustainable Online Learning Engagement during COVID-19: Community of Inquiry in a Chinese Secondary Education Context.

How university students of Mandarin Chinese experience ‘Chinese culture’: an interculturality and small cultures perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Jin, T. (2020). How university students of Mandarin Chinese experience ‘Chinese culture’: an interculturality and small cultures perspective. Language and Intercultural Communication, 20(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2020.1825461

Moving beyond ‘intercultural competence’: Interculturality in the learning of Mandarin in UK universities (2016)
Journal Article
Jin, T. (2017). Moving beyond ‘intercultural competence’: Interculturality in the learning of Mandarin in UK universities. Language and Intercultural Communication, 17(3), 306-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2016.1259320

This paper reports on a study of the identity perceptions of undergraduate and postgraduate students of Mandarin at UK universities. Interviews with 26 students were conducted over a three-year period, most of whom were multilingual. Approximately ha... Read More about Moving beyond ‘intercultural competence’: Interculturality in the learning of Mandarin in UK universities.

Getting to know you: The development of intercultural competence as an essential element in learning Mandarin (2014)
Journal Article
Jin, T. (2014). Getting to know you: The development of intercultural competence as an essential element in learning Mandarin. London Review of Education, 12(1), 20-33. https://doi.org/10.18546/lre.12.1.04

The role of cultural dimensions in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language in the UK is not as fully understood as it needs to be, especially in relation to developing students' abilities with intercultural communication. This paper adopts an e... Read More about Getting to know you: The development of intercultural competence as an essential element in learning Mandarin.