El estudiante chino de español como lengua extranjera (ELE) Diálogo entre la cultura china y el contexto educativo Chinese students of Spanish as a Foreign Language. Dialogue between the Chinese culture and the educational context

It is an accepted view in the literature on undergraduate Chinese students that their learning styles and learning strategies are culturally predetermined. Chinese culture is influenced by Confucianism and the importance it places on roten memory and the book as an almost exclusive source of knowledge. There are only a few voices who explore the possibility that a change of Chinese learning styles and learning strategies could take place as a consequence of a new educational environment and the exposure of learners to alternative teaching methodologies and types of assessment. Forty two students from a province located on Northeast China were interviewed while they