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New Directions for Education in China. (2014)
Book
Cowan, S., Jin, T., Johnstone Cowan, L., & Pan, Z. (Eds.). (2014). New Directions for Education in China. Institute of Education Press

As the numbers of Chinese postgraduate students continues to grow in universities around the world, issues relating to Chinese education are becoming of world-wide interest. The present book is a contribution to this widening interest and to debates... Read More about New Directions for Education in China..

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.