Volume 19, Number 1, 2006

Paul Rastall

Introduction: The Chinese Learner in Higher Education – Transition and Quality Issues.......1

Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi

Changing Practices in Chinese Cultures of Learning.......5

Jin Yan and Yang Huizhong

The English Proficiency of College and University Students in China: As Reflected in the CET.......21

Helen Spencer-Oatey and Zhaoning Xiong

Chinese Students' Psychological and Sociocultural Adjustments to Britain: An Empirical Study.......37

Rose Clark and S.N. Gieve

On the Discursive Construction of ‘The Chinese Learner’.......54

Qing Gu and Michele Schweisfurth

Who Adapts? Beyond Cultural Models of ‘the’ Chinese Learner.......74

Rachel Edwards

What's in a Name? Chinese Learners and the Practice of Adopting ‘English’ Names.......90

Barbara M. Mayor

Dialogic and Hortatory Features in the Writing of Chinese Candidates for the IELTS Test.......104

Lijing Shi

The Successors to Confucianism or a New Generation? A Questionnaire Study on Chinese Students' Culture of Learning English.......122

Tricia Coverdale-Jones

Afterword: The Chinese Learner in Perspective.......148