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Interview Guide for Chinese Grad Students

This document contains interview questions for first year Chinese graduate students and their professors regarding oral participation in class. The student questions focus on their educational and participation experiences both in China and the US, including their level of comfort participating orally. The professor questions focus on challenges and approaches for teaching multicultural classrooms, evaluating Chinese student performance and participation compared to American students, and factors that affect Chinese student oral participation.

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Interview Guide for Chinese Grad Students

This document contains interview questions for first year Chinese graduate students and their professors regarding oral participation in class. The student questions focus on their educational and participation experiences both in China and the US, including their level of comfort participating orally. The professor questions focus on challenges and approaches for teaching multicultural classrooms, evaluating Chinese student performance and participation compared to American students, and factors that affect Chinese student oral participation.

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Appendix C
Interview Questions
Interview Guide for First Year Chinese Graduate Students
1. Can you describe your goal for graduate study?
2. What incentives motivate you to study in the U.S.?
3. Comparing with your educational experiences in China, what similarities and
differences do you see between Chinese educational pedagogy and American
educational pedagogy?
4. Can you describe how your professors organize and plan his/her lessons? How
does he/she interact with the students?
5. Do you participate in class discussions? If yes, how actively do you participate? If
not, why not?
6. What strengthens and challenges do you have with oral participation?
7. What teaching approaches do you think benefit your oral participation?
8. Do you feel encouraged in class?
9. If you are the only Chinese students in the class, will you be comfortable with
orally participating in class discussion?
10. Can you have trouble with understanding the course content?
Interview Guide for Professors
1. How long have been in a teaching position? Can you describe your teaching
experiences in multicultural and multilingual classrooms?
2. What are the challenges for you to teaching in multicultural and multilingual
classrooms?
3. Optional: When you were an international student who studied at the U.S., what
strengths and challenges did you have in oral participating in class?
4. What do you think about the value of oral participation of students learning in
class?
5. Can you describe the teaching approaches that you use in your class to hold
discussions and group work?
6. Do you advocate for oral participation in your class? Why do you value students
oral participation in class? How do you promote oral participation?
7. Can you describe your Chinese students performance in your class?
8. What do you think about your Chinese students oral participation compared with
American students?
9. How do you feel about your Chinese students response to the class content and
contribution to discussions?
10. How do you feel about other classmates and your reaction to Chinese students oral
participation?
11. What do you think about the challenges and strengths for Chinese students to oral
participate in your class?

12. What are your expectations for Chinese students oral participation?
13. Will you put more focus on international students performance?
14. What do you think about the most essential factors that affect Chinese graduate
students oral participation?
15. Do you think cultural value and English language proficiency are still two vital
factors that
affect Chinese students oral participation?

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