Internationalization in Higher Education – International Student’s Chinese Learning as Serious Leisure in Taiwan
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Abstract
Due to the economic and commercial rise of China, the economic value, political value, and instrumental advantages produced by Chinese have become more significant. The fever for learning Chinese continues to intensify all over the world, and Chinese instruction has become increasingly popular. Taiwan is a country with Chinese as its official language; and an important issue rose in international educational policy is how to attract international students to study Chinese in Taiwan. At the same time, Taiwan has promoted the internationalization of universities in the recent years; it hopes to elevate the visibility of its universities on the international stage, and intends to broaden diplomacy and promote economic development. This study found that international students who came to Taiwan to learn Chinese tended to be Asians. The different original residence locations of international students would significantly affect learning Chinese as serious leisure. International students who rented apartments with others off-campus or who chose home-stays had greater life planning, effort in Chinese learning, continuous benefits from Chinese learning, and a sense of community identification with their learning peers, as compared to international students who lived in school dormitories or lived alone off-campus. International students who had mor e disposable income each month were more likely to gain lasting benefits from Chinese learning and strong community identification with their learning peers. Key words: International education; International students; Chinese learning; Language learning as serious leisure Resume: En raison de l'essor economique et commercial de la Chine, la valeur economique, la valeur politique et les avantages instrumentaux produits par les Chinois sont devenus plus importants. L'enthouiasme pour apprendre le chinois continue de s'intensifier dans le monde entier, et l'enseignement du chinois est devenu de plus en plus populaire. La langue officielle de Taiwan est le chinois, et l'une des questions importantes dans la politique educative internationale est de savoir comment attirer des etudiants etrangers a etudier le chinois a Taiwan. En meme temps, Taiwan a favorise l'internationalisation des universites dans les annees recentes. Il espere rehausser la visibilite de ses universites sur la scene internationale et il a l'intention d'elargir la diplomatie et promouvoir le developpement economique. Cette etude a revele que les etudiants etrangers qui sont venus a Taiwan pour apprendre le chinois sont plutot des Asiatiques. Les localisations differentes de residence originale des etudiants etrangers auraient une influence significative sur leur apprentissage du chinois en tant que loisir serieux. Les etudiants etrangers qui ont loue des appartements avec d'autres etudiants en dehors du campus ou ceux qui ont choisi une famille d'acceuil avaient une planification de vie plus longue et un effort d'apprendre le Chinois plus grand. Ils beneficiaient des avantages continus de l'apprentissage du chinois et avaient un sentiment d'identification de communaute avec leurs partenaires de l'apprentissage, par rapport aux etudiants etrangers qui vivaient dans les dortoirs scolaires ou vivaient seuls en dehors du campus. Les etudiants etrangers qui avaient un revenu disponible plus eleve chaque mois etaient plus susceptibles d'obtenir des avantages durables de l'apprentissage du chinois et avaient une identification forte de communaute avec leurs partenaire de l'apprentissage. Mots-cles: education internationale; etudiants internationaux; apprentissage du chinois; apprentissage de langue en tant que loisir serieux
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".