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Investigating Chinese HE EFL Classrooms

Using Collaborative Learning to Enhance Learning

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Authors:
  1. Lin Lin

    1. School of English Studies, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China

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  • Reveals the nature of Chinese EFL teaching and proposes recommendations for developing effective teaching pedagogy
  • Presents an innovative resource that appeals to applied linguists, researchers of TESOL, as well as practitioners of taught doctorate programs alike
  • Provides a dynamic guide to a step-by-step research process by easy-to-follow illustrations and tables in the main text
  • Features a multi-methods approach towards collaborative learning research
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Background to Collaborative Learning and Chinese EFL Education

    • Lin Lin
    Pages 1-10

  3. Exploring Collaborative Learning: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives

    • Lin Lin
    Pages 11-28

  4. Tenets and Practices of Collaborative Learning in Classrooms: Empirical Supports

    • Lin Lin
    Pages 29-42

  5. The Collaborative Learning Research Project: From Theory to Practice

    • Lin Lin
    Pages 43-69

  6. Research Instruments

    • Lin Lin
    Pages 71-101

  7. Evaluating the Use and Effectiveness of Collaborative Learning: Students’ Interactional Behaviors and Engagement

    • Lin Lin
    Pages 103-134

  8. Collaboration as Conducive to Learning: Students’ Preferences for Learning and Attainments

    • Lin Lin
    Pages 135-152

  9. Collaborative Learning in Practice: Toward a Pedagogy

    • Lin Lin
    Pages 153-180

  10. Attitudes and Motivation

    • Lin Lin
    Pages 181-195

  11. Conclusions: Toward a Broader Pedagogy

    • Lin Lin
    Pages 197-208

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 209-310
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​This book presents a study on corpus-driven distribution as the main method of prediction, concentrating on individual semantic features to predict the senses of non-defined words by using corpora and tools, such as the Chinese Gigaword Corpus, HowNet, Chinese Wordnet, and XianDai HanYu CiDian (Xian Han). With the help of these corpora, the study determines the collocation clusters of four target words: chi1 “eat,” wan2 “play,” huan4 “change” and shao1 “burn” through character and concept similarities. The results of this sense prediction study demonstrate that it was able to use off-line tasks to test some participants’ intuition, which supports the theory that different clusters can represent different senses when pursuing a corpus-based, computational approach.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of English Studies, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, China

    Lin Lin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Investigating Chinese HE EFL Classrooms

  • Book Subtitle: Using Collaborative Learning to Enhance Learning

  • Authors: Lin Lin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44503-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-44502-0Published: 17 November 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52532-6Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-44503-7Published: 03 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 310

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Language Education

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