Preface -- Language, learning, and “educational knowledge” -- The evolution of a language of science -- Learning to learn through language -- Language and learning in the primary school -- The language of school “subjects” -- English and Chinese: similarities and differences -- Languages and cultures -- Languages, education and science: future needs. .This book is based on a series of …
Introduction: Dis-Orient to Re-Orient Ourselves? -- 1- Reconceptualising the ‘Other’ in Australian universities -- 2- Encountering ‘the West’ through academic mobility: Shifting representations and reinforced stereotypes -- 3- The PRC “foreign talent” scholars and their Singaporean “Other”: Neo-Occidentalism amidst intercultural contact in the context of higher education student…
-- Chapter 1 – Interactional competences in institutional settings: Young people between school and work: Simona Pekarek Doehler & Cécile Petitjean -- Section I – Institutional practices between school and the workplace -- Chapter 2 – Expressing personal opinions in classroom interactions: The role of humor and displays of uncertainty: Virginie Degoumois, Cécile Petitjean & Simona Pek…