Shifting motivational discourses among mainland Chinese students in an English medium tertiary institution in Hong Kong: a longitudinal inquiry

By Xuesong Gao. 2008

101 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Education

1. Cheryl Jones
2. Michael Hammond
3. Wenli Wu
4. Simone E. Volet
5. Sanna Järvelä
6. Hanna Järvenoja

In Language and Linguistics

1. Michael Hammond
2. Wenli Wu
3. Simone E. Volet
4. Cheryl Jones

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Michael Hammond
2. Wenli Wu
3. Simone E. Volet
4. Cheryl Jones

Citations in the corpus

• Cultural Transitions in Higher Education: Individual Adaptation, Transformation and Engagement (2012, background): “The patterns of findings are revealing, and remarkably consistent, showing a change in motivational discourse (Gao, 2008) with growing self-determination and pro-active engagement and behaviours (Gu et al.”
• Challenges of university adjustment in the UK: a study of East Asian Master’s degree students (2011, background): “No doubt each story would have been different if they had been placed in alternative residences but, as Gao (2008) points out in a study of Chinese students in Hong Kong, context is not fixed, it is created and internalised; one makes one’s own environment to some extent.”