Groupwork to enhance learning beyond the classroom

Over the last few years, students enrolled in English pathway programs in Australia have frequently come from mainland China, which often results in a monolingual classroom. This situation has constrained the development of cross-cultural communication and language learning. Research has found that Chinese international students have felt reluctant to work and interact with local students (Li, Remedios and Clarke 2010), as well as to engage with the multicultural Australian community (King and Gardiner 2015, Yu and Wright 2016). The lack of linguistic and cultural diversity in the student cohort has been a challenge to effective language learning and community engagement.

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