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Dr Tinghe Jin's Outputs (12)

“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.

The role of British missionary scholars in setting the foundations for the academic study of Chinese in British universities (2023)
Book Chapter
Jin, T., & Cowan, S. (2023). The role of British missionary scholars in setting the foundations for the academic study of Chinese in British universities. In D. Savatovsky, V. Spaëth, M. Albano, & T. Pham (Eds.), Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts: L'apprentissage et l'enseignement des langues en contextes missionnaire et colonial. Amsterdam University Press

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.

Identifying and contextualising the key issues (2017)
Book Chapter
Jin, T., & Dervin, F. (2017). Identifying and contextualising the key issues. In T. Jin, & F. Dervin (Eds.), Interculturality in Chinese Language Education. Palgrave McMillan

Interculturality in Chinese Language Education. (2017)
Book
Jin, T., & Dervin, F. (Eds.). (2017). Interculturality in Chinese Language Education. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58322-2

This book calls for a change in the way interculturality is introduced in Chinese language education, while the demand for Chinese language teaching increases around the world. The concept of culture – as in the phrase ‘Chinese culture’ – has often b... Read More about Interculturality in Chinese Language Education..

Identifying and contextualising the key issues (2017)
Book Chapter
Jin, T., & Dervin, F. (2017). Identifying and contextualising the key issues. In T. Jin, & F. Dervin (Eds.), Interculturality in Chinese language education (1-22). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58322-2_1

This chapter reviews current research on the intercultural component of language education and discusses its relevance for Chinese language teaching and learning. Basic concepts such as culture, identity and the very word ‘intercultural’ are problema... Read More about Identifying and contextualising the key issues.

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.

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.