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Li, Xuemei – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2015
This qualitative study engaged five international graduate students from four different countries (the U.S., Colombia, Cape Verde Island, and Spain) who were studying at a Chinese university in Shanghai. The researcher investigated their personal and academic lives in China, their interaction with local people and integration into the local…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, International Education, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency
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Li, Xuemei – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2007
In this discussion, the author highlights the relationship between language and identity by discussing notions such as language as a symbolic resource (Heller, 1995) and language as a badge of identity (Buruma, 2003) in a society. The reasons why a number of bilingual writers have decided to write in their second languages are explored, and issues…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Bilingualism, Authors, Identification (Psychology)