Teaching in English-Medium the Chinese Learner of International Business Studies: A Practicum Guide
Paul Anthony McGavin
School of Business, UNSW, Australia
Volume 15: 2020, pp. 271-290; ABSTRACT
There are particular hurdles for learning in international business studies in tertiary education by the Chinese cultural learner. The term cultural learner chiefly addresses Mainland Chinese students whose schooling cycle has been in Chinese characters and within the learning culture of Mainland China. The article draws on insights from language research and neuropsychology to indicate the steep learning curve and different learning strategies in reading/writing/learning in alphabetical literacy; and the steep learning curve and different learning and assessment strategies involved in international business studies. Becoming aware of the learning curve and the learning difficulties that are specific to cultural Chinese learners indicates pedagogic strategies that need to be encountered, formulated, and practised in order to induct and to teach cultural Chinese learners in the environment of international business studies education. Both from business-model perspectives and from educational perspectives there needs to be major rethinking/re-programming in the internationalisation of English-medium university education, by universities and by governments and other stakeholders alike.
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