ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the multiple matters at play in a China visit, and knowledge needed for the informed planning and execution that will ensure it is an optimal learning success. There are four central aspects of planning a China visit which need to be integrated and congruent in values if the learning rewards are to be attained. These are: Goal: achieving experiential learning, content: seeking learning in four domains, structure: designing for learning opportunities and outcomes: recognising learning. Pritchard has identified four essential components of a student residential program that engender experiential learning. These are: challenging setting, constructed social interaction, tolerance of risk and reflection. Immersion in the language environment can greatly contribute to developing language proficiency in the form of discernibly improved confidence and readiness to speak, in the acquisition of set phrases, longer utterances, better quality of rhythm and tones, and greater fluency and accuracy.
