Chinese Students: Perspectives on their social, cognitive, and linguistic investment in English medium interaction

Special Issue of Journal of Asian Pacific 18:1 (2008)

Editors

Sophie Arkoudis | University of Melbourne

Chris Davison | University of Hong Kong

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 18:1] 2008. 140 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 20 May 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.18.1

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	1
Chinese Students: Perspectives on their social, cognitive, and linguistic investment in English medium interaction Sophie Arkoudis and Chris Davison	3–8
Articles
Supplementing an uncertain investment? Mainland Chinese students practising English together in Hong Kong Xuesong Gao, Huiman Cheng and Peter Kelly	9–29
Promoting investment by Chinese learners in classroom discourse: Integrating content and language in the undergraduate classroom John Trent	30–48
Identity construction and investment transformation: College students from non-urban areas in China Michelle Mingyue Gu	49–70
Imagined communities in senior school mathematics: Beyond issues of English language ability Sophie Arkoudis and Kristina Love	71–90
The “other(ing)” costs of ESL: A Canadian case study Ena Lee	91–108
Identity, investment, and Chinese learners of English Bonny Norton and Yihong Gao	109–120
Book reviews
Review of Feng (2007): Bilingual Education in China: Practices, Policies and Concepts Reviewed by Joseph Lo Bianco	121–127
Review of Zheng & Davison (2008): Changing Pedagogy: Analyzing ELT teachers in China Reviewed by Wenfeng Wang	128–131
List of contributors	133

Cited by (7)

Cited by seven other publications

Order by:

Giles, Howard, Herbert Pierson & Marinus van den Berg

2025. A welcome and farewell message. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 35:1 ► pp. 1 ff.

Liu, Na, Chih-Kai Lin & Terrence G. Wiley

2016. Learner Views on English and English Language Teaching in China. International Multilingual Research Journal 10:2 ► pp. 137 ff.

Tran, Ly Thi

2016. Mobility as ‘becoming’: a Bourdieuian analysis of the factors shaping international student mobility. British Journal of Sociology of Education 37:8 ► pp. 1268 ff.

Ai, Bin

2015. A Study of the EFL Writing of Chinese Learners: A Critical Narrative. Changing English 22:3 ► pp. 294 ff.

Han, Eun-Jeong & Paula Groves Price

2015. Uncovering the Hidden Power of Language: Critical Race Theory, Critical Language Socialization and Multicultural Families in Korea. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 44:2 ► pp. 108 ff.

Henry, Alastair & Angela Goddard

2015. Bicultural or Hybrid? The Second Language Identities of Students on an English-Mediated University Program in Sweden. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 14:4 ► pp. 255 ff.

Paul Taylor, Evans, Elaine & Dawn Cable

2011. Evidence of improvement in accounting students' communication skills. International Journal of Educational Management 25:4 ► pp. 311 ff.

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 30 march 2026. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Subjects and metadata

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Afro-Asiatic languages

Altaic languages