Chinese management academics’ English-medium scholarly experience: Comparative perspectives on overseastrained and home-trained scholars
In this paper we report a study which was aimed to find out how overseas-trained Chinese management academics (CMAs) compare with their home-trained counterparts in English-medium scholarly experience. Our data were drawn from a web-based questionnaire distributed following the conclusion of the biennial conference of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) held in 2014, the part of the conference program which featured English sessions, e-mail interviews with some questionnaire respondents, and observation at the conference site. Our findings comparatively illustrate the English-medium scholarly experience of the two cohorts of CMAs in terms of their participation in the English presentation sessions of IACMR2014, their use of English as university academics, and the relationship between English/Chinese-medium research productivity and self-perceived English abilities. Our study highlights heterogeneity among different groups of English as an Additional Language (EAL) scholars and calls for more contextualized investigation of the diverse experiences of EAL scholars across countries and disciplines in this English-dominant academic world.
En este artículo se presenta un estudio que buscaba explorar comparativamente la experiencia académica de los profesores del ámbito de las ciencias empresariales en China con formación internacionalmente con la de aquellos con formación únicamente nacional. Nuestros datos se obtuvieron a partir de un cuestionario online distribuido después del congreso bianual de la Asociación Internacional de Investigación en Ciencias Empresariales en China (IACMR por sus siglas en inglés), celebrado en 2014, de las sesiones del congresos en las que se presentaron ponencias en inglés, de las entrevistas por e-mail a algunos de los participantes en el cuestionario y de la observaciones in situ durate el congreso. Nuestros resultados ilustran de manera comparativa la experiencia de dos grupos de profesores del ámbito de las ciencias empresariales en términos de su participación en las sesiones con presentaciones en inglés en el congreso IACMR2014, su uso del English en las actividades académicas en la universidad, y las relaciones entre la productividad investigadora en las que se emplea el inglés o el chino y la auto-percepción sobre la destreza lingüística en inglés. Nuestro estudio señala la hetereogenidad entre los diferentes grupos de académicos que usan el Inglés como Lengua Adicional (ILA) y propone la necesidad de una investigación más contextualizada de las diversas experiencias de los académicos que usan ILA en la comunicación académica en diferentes países y disciplinas en un mundo académico marcado por el uso dominante del inglés.
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| Translated title: | El uso del inglés como lengua académica en el ámbito de las ciencias empresariales en China: Una perspectiva comparativa de los profesores con formación internacional y aquellos con formación nacional |
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| Journal Title: | Ibérica |
| First author: | Yongyan Li |
| Other Authors: | Guangwei Hu |
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| Language: | English |
| Get full text: | http://www.aelfe.org/documents/33_03_IBERICA.pdf |
| Resource type: | Journal Article |
| Source: | Ibérica; Vol 33, (Year 2017). |
| Publisher: | Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos |
| Usage rights: | Reconocimiento - NoComercial (by-nc) |
| Knowledge areas / Categories: | Social Sciences/Humanities --> Linguistics Social Sciences/Humanities --> Language --AMP-- Linguistics |
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