Taiwan region students in Malaysia and Intercultu-rality:When National Identities Take Primacy over Individualities  

作　　者：Regis MACHART Sep Neo LIM E-Lynn YEOW Sin Zi CHIN 

机构地区：[1]Department of Foreign Languages,Faculty of Modern languages and Communication,Universiti Putra Malaysia,UPM Serdang 43400,Malaysia [2]Faculty of Arts,Communication and Education,Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur,Kajang 43000,Selangor Darul Ehsan,Malaysia

出　　处：《Frontiers of Education in China》2014年第3期327-349,共23页中国高等学校学术文摘·教育学（英文）

摘　　要：Using a liquid approach,the authors analyze the intercultural discourse of Taiwan region students who had taken part in a short term exchange program with a Malaysian university.The four participants were graduating in Mandarin Chinese in their home institution and were following a Chinese program in multilingual Malaysia.Data were collected through focus groups held in Mandarin Chinese and focused on their experience in the host country.The authors analyze how participants talk about themselves,Malaysians,and their adaptation to the host country.The processes of essentialization and othering that occur and put in contrast the host and the home contexts are similar to those held in Asia-to-Europe mobility and very far from an“interculturality without culture”(Dervin,2010).If we focus on the construction of discourses,this Asia-to-Asia mobility forces us to relativize the opposition of cultures as an explanation for difficulties encountered by mobile students.

关 键 词：INTERCULTURALITY OTHERING cultural adjustment student exchange Taiwan region students 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]