Publications

Publication details [#56612]

Yu, Baohua and Huizhong Shen. 2012. Predicting roles of linguistic confidence, integrative motivation and second language proficiency on cross-cultural adaptation. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 36 (1) : 72–82.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | L2-acquisition | language proficiency | motivation | university

Language as a subject

English, Australian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores how second language (L2) linguistic confidence, integrative motivation and L2 proficiency predict the cross-cultural adaptation of Mainland Chinese international students across five different faculties in an Australian university.