How do overseas students in mainland China get Chinese language exposure? Learners' perspectives on the experience of 1:2 contact and use in a study-abroad context

Many believe that second language (L2) learners should be exposed to target language (TL) in order to learn it (Ranta and Meckelborg, 2013). Such belief set of a wave of study-abroad (SA) program. However, some argue that the increased interaction in the host context and miraculous linguistic gains...

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Main Author: Hong, Jaipei
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43734/