Rethinking orientation: Innovation and collaboration in a language and culture camp at a Sino-US university.
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2022-01-01
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The past few decades have seen a dramatic increase in the internationalization of higher education institutions, from study abroad programs to increasing internationalization efforts at home (Institute of International Education, 2019; Ogden & Brewer, 2019). Many internationalized higher education institutions aim to develop intercultural competence and L2 proficiency, particularly in study abroad programs. Both are often assumed to be natural outcomes for students in these contexts. However, research suggests that simply spending time in another country, studying at an institution with a diverse student body, or even experiencing intercultural encounters are insufficient (Gurin, Day, Hurtado, & Gurin, 2002; Otten, 2003). Most students require explicit instruction and mentorship to develop these valued competencies (Brewer & Moore, 2015; Jackson, 2017, 2018a; Paige & Vande Berg, 2012). This chapter reports on an intervention during first-year student orientation at Duke Kunshan University (DKU), a newly established Sino–U.S. university in China. The primary goal of this orientation was to employ group activities that would foster connections among all incoming students, while delivering targeted instruction in language learning and academic skills.
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Joseph Arthur Davies
Joseph Davies is Senior Lecturer of English Language and Assistant Director for Graduate English for Academic Purposes at Duke Kunshan University's Language and Culture Center. Joseph's current research interests are in higher education assessment, focusing on feedback, specifically second language student feedback literacy, teacher feedback literacy, and feedback culture within Sino-foreign higher education contexts. His research has been published in academic journals such as Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. Joseph is also a founding core lab member of Duke Kunshan University's Institute for Global Higher Education (IGHE) pedagogical research and practice lab. He holds a First Class B.Sc. (honors) in forensic science and an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages with Applied Linguistics. He also holds a University of Cambridge DELTA qualification and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Joseph has over 15 years' experience designing, managing and teaching academic and professional English-language and teacher training courses throughout China and in the UK. Joseph has lectured at New York University Shanghai and previously served as business development lead for one of the UK's largest universities, establishing, maintaining, and enhancing academic partnerships throughout China.
Laura Jane Davies
Laura Davies is the Assistant Director of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), and Senior Lecturer of English Language in the Language and Culture Center at Duke Kunshan University. She holds an MA in TESOL with Applied Linguistics and a DELTA, specializing in higher education English language teaching management. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Her research interests include assessment literacy, social justice, and inclusive pedagogical and curriculum design. Laura’s current research projects focus on examining and enhancing assessment literacy in Higher Education contexts. Her current teaching innovations include community-based learning, intercultural engagement across diverse populations and the use of dialogic feedback to enhance inclusion and feedback effectiveness.
Kristin Elisabeth Hiller
Dr. Hiller is an Associate Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics, and founding Associate Director for the Writing and Language Studio at Duke Kunshan University. Her research interests include language policy, translanguaging, cultures of learning, and writing program administration and pedagogy in transnational EMI higher education contexts.
From 2015 through 2017, Dr. Hiller was the founding Academic Director of the American Language Institute at NYU Shanghai and oversaw its expansion into the NYU School of Professional Studies (NYUSPS) at NYU Shanghai. She has also directed English language programs in Daejeon (South Korea) and Beijing for the University of California, Riverside Extension, and taught English as an additional language there, in the USA, and in Russia.
She received her Ph.D. in linguistics (applied track) from the University of Utah, where she taught EAP and intercultural communication courses. She also has an M.A. in TESOL from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a BA in linguistics and Russian language and literature from the University of Minnesota.
Kevin Sprague
Kevin Sprague is an English instructor that teaches EAP, Public Speaking, and Debate at Duke-Kunshan University. He previously received an English Language Fellowship to work as a teaching specialist at Henan University and Northeastern University, in Shenyang. In that capacity, he worked with local teachers to introduce innovative teaching techniques. He obtained his MA TESL from Pennsylvania State University with a focus on academic writing and has taught a range of English courses. His professional work focuses on teacher development, intercultural communication, and innovative EAP teaching for internationalized higher education.
Xin Zhang
Dr. Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Intercultural Communication at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). She is Associate Director of the Language and Culture Center. Her research lies at the intersection of applied linguistics, language pedagogy, and intercultural communication with a focus on how multilinguals negotiate identities and socialize into globalized workplaces and educational contexts. Previously she held an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Oberlin College, US, and has directed intensive study abroad Chinese programs including the Critical Language Scholarship program.
张欣博士任昆山杜克大学中文与跨文化交际助理教授、语言文化中心副主任（主管中文作为第二语言项目与第三外语）。曾获美国Andrew W. Mellon基金会博士后奖学金并任欧柏林大学中文客座助理教授，并曾担任美国关键语言奖学金等多个中文暑期留学项目的主任。她的研究领域包括应用语言学，语言教学法与跨文化交际，侧重于国际化职场与教育环境中多语者身份构建与协商。
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