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- Title
Learning Culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian Undergraduate Students.
- Authors
Omidvar, Pegah; Chan, Mei -Yuit; Yap, Ngee -Thai; Bolong, Jusang
- Abstract
With the increasingly multicultural and multi-national demographics of students in the classroom, teachers find themselves having to face the challenges of teaching students from diverse cultural backgrounds. While much research has been done on individual differences in learning attitudes, learning strategies and learning styles, there is a severe lack of work done to investigate whether differences in the attitudes and values towards learning could be attributed to group differences. This paper reports the findings of a study on the differences in learning culture between Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian students. A questionnaire that measures learning culture was developed using Hofstede's (1980) cultural dimensions. The questionnaire consists of 24 items covering four dimensions, namely, collectivism/ individualism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity/femininity. One hundred and fifty Iranian and the same number of Chinese-Malaysian undergraduate students participated in the study. The results showed that there is a significant difference in the collectivism/individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity/femininity dimensions between these two groups of students. Implications of the results to the teaching and learning of second/foreign language are discussed.
- Subjects
EDUCATIONAL anthropology; UNDERGRADUATES; CLASSROOMS; STUDENT teachers; CHINESE students; MALAYSIAN students; MASCULINITY; COLLECTIVISM (Social psychology); IRANIAN students
- Publication
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 2012, Vol 20, Issue 3, p865
- ISSN
0128-7702
- Publication type
Article