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Ho, Janet – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Following the first coronavirus case reported to the World Health Organization in Wuhan in 2019 and the ensuing city-wide lockdown that was imposed, many people attempted to leave the city, culminating in a vigorous discourse on the dominant Chinese microblogging site, Weibo. This study seeks to examine how online participants discursively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pandemics, COVID-19, Social Media
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Ding, Feng; Stapleton, Paul – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
Transitioning from school to university is a major development for learners, often accompanied by difficulties. When overseas students arrive at university for the first time these challenges are multiplied. It is suggested, however, that these difficulties can be mitigated to a certain extent via the use of online social networks. The present…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Online Systems, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment