Thanks for your detailed reply. The CORE Team project looks fascinating; I’ll email to follow up about it.
Your impressions of Chinese students match mine. My students never spoke up much in class, but they were avid contributors to my weekly online discussion forums, where they seemed to feel freer to connect the course material to their other courses, their own lives, current events, and Chinese pop culture (which was very educational for me!). (It helped that contributions to the discussion forum determined 30% of their course grade.)
Hi Gilad,
Thanks for your detailed reply. The CORE Team project looks fascinating; I’ll email to follow up about it.
Your impressions of Chinese students match mine. My students never spoke up much in class, but they were avid contributors to my weekly online discussion forums, where they seemed to feel freer to connect the course material to their other courses, their own lives, current events, and Chinese pop culture (which was very educational for me!). (It helped that contributions to the discussion forum determined 30% of their course grade.)