Academic Hero: An Investigation of an Informal Bilingual Volunteer Peer Teaching Model in Supporting Chinese International Students’ Learning

Jinqi Xu, Lynne Keevers

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Abstract

The growth in the number of Chinese students in Western universities has prompted academics to explore different pedagogical practices that are suitable for diverse classrooms. Some persisting contradictions between Western and Eastern conceptions of education exist in the practices and institutional structures that students encounter daily. Designing appropriate curricular and learning activities is crucial to the embedding of Chinese international students’ learning experience in the West. Adopting a practice-based approach, this ethnographic study investigates how an informal bilingual volunteer peer teaching model, entailing a mix of pedagogical practices, contributed toward improving Chinese international students’ learning experience in a Western context. This paper advocates a movement beyond the boundaries and the limits of the fixed pedagogies and turns toward diverse pedagogical practices in teaching Chinese students. This paper also provides new insights about the curricular design for academic and institutional practices in order to further develop Chinese students’ positive learning experiences in the West.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)756-776
Number of pages21
JournalJournal of International Students
Volume12
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 15 Aug 2022
Externally publishedYes

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