Given the increasing number of Chinese international students studying at Canadian universities, it is important to understand the actualities and needs of this special group of population in this special context. Even though these students had to demonstrate their English proficiency in tests in order to be admitted to an English-medium university, some of them still expressed difficulties and a lack of confidence in using English under certain circumstances. Some also reported that being immersed in the English-speaking environment did not seem to bring them the significant linguistic gain as expected. This study took a closer look at what was behind such negative self-perceptions from the point of Bandura’s (1997) self-efficacy theory. T...
This short paper firstly examines the cultural issues of confidence-based assessment by observing a ...
Speaking is not a compulsory language skill assessed in the English subject of the National College ...
With an increasing number of international students coming to Canada for higher education, Canadian ...
[[abstract]]This study indicates that the social self-efficacy of 203 Chinese and Taiwanese internat...
China’s growing economic power has led to over one hundred million people speaking Chinese world-wid...
This study, entitled “Understanding the Choice of Chinese Graduate Students’ English Learning Strate...
This study investigated the relationships between students’ self-efficacy and self-concept for learn...
The existing research was conducted in order to explore the correlation between Self-efficacy and Ch...
Speaking is not a compulsory language skill assessed in the English subject of the National College ...
Participating in a research-oriented teacher education program, 20 university graduates from China w...
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between self-efficacy for learning Chin...
This study, entitled “Understanding the Choice of Chinese Graduate Students’ English Learning Strate...
This study, entitled “Understanding the Choice of Chinese Graduate Students’ English Learning Strate...
This study was designed to determine the relationship between Chinese immigrant newcomers\u27 report...
This study was designed to determine the relationship between Chinese immigrant newcomers\u27 report...
This short paper firstly examines the cultural issues of confidence-based assessment by observing a ...
Speaking is not a compulsory language skill assessed in the English subject of the National College ...
With an increasing number of international students coming to Canada for higher education, Canadian ...
[[abstract]]This study indicates that the social self-efficacy of 203 Chinese and Taiwanese internat...
China’s growing economic power has led to over one hundred million people speaking Chinese world-wid...
This study, entitled “Understanding the Choice of Chinese Graduate Students’ English Learning Strate...
This study investigated the relationships between students’ self-efficacy and self-concept for learn...
The existing research was conducted in order to explore the correlation between Self-efficacy and Ch...
Speaking is not a compulsory language skill assessed in the English subject of the National College ...
Participating in a research-oriented teacher education program, 20 university graduates from China w...
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between self-efficacy for learning Chin...
This study, entitled “Understanding the Choice of Chinese Graduate Students’ English Learning Strate...
This study, entitled “Understanding the Choice of Chinese Graduate Students’ English Learning Strate...
This study was designed to determine the relationship between Chinese immigrant newcomers\u27 report...
This study was designed to determine the relationship between Chinese immigrant newcomers\u27 report...
This short paper firstly examines the cultural issues of confidence-based assessment by observing a ...
Speaking is not a compulsory language skill assessed in the English subject of the National College ...
With an increasing number of international students coming to Canada for higher education, Canadian ...