Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: My Journey of Adaptive Cultural Transformation -- 1 Asian Students in U.S. Universities -- 2 Studying Asian Students' Participation in American Classrooms -- 3 Understanding Asian Students' Classroom Communication Patterns -- 4 Factors Affecting Asian Students' Classroom Communication Patterns -- 5 Interpreting Silence from an Asian Perspective -- 6 Asian Students' Adaptive Cultural Transformation -- Epilogue -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.