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Based on interview data, this study investigated four Chinese graduate students' experiences with writing a literature review at a medium-sized university in Canada. These students, from four subject areas, held varying perceptions of a literature review, but all saw the writing challenges that they encountered mainly as linguistic problems, especially regarding vocabulary and accuracy at the sentence level. The strategies that they used in the composing process were diverse, with each individual relying on them to varying degrees. Findings from this study suggest that Chinese graduate students need assistance in adjusting to the new academic environment and writing-genre expectations.

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This paper provides a focused (not comprehensive) review of multicultural science education research in order to determine whether it “has arrived” as a field of inquiry from its meager beginnings over twenty-five years ago. While the answer is yes given the exponential growth of research in the field, only a qualified yes is allowed given the weaknesses identified: a tendency to polemical, hypothetical work; over-extrapolation from the data that do exist and little transference to the classroom—the latter partially due to policy positions and lack of explicit help for teachers in complex contexts—. The paper concludes that there is, however, an optimistic future.