Learning culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian undergraduate students

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...

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Main Authors: Omidvar, Pegah, Chan, Mei Yuit, Yap, Ngee Thai, Bolong, Jusang
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2012
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spelling my.upm.eprints.408422015-10-27T02:04:18Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40842/ Learning culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian undergraduate students Omidvar, Pegah Chan, Mei Yuit Yap, Ngee Thai Bolong, Jusang 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. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2012-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40842/1/Learning%20culture%20of%20Iranian%20and%20Chinese-Malaysian%20undergraduate%20students.pdf Omidvar, Pegah and Chan, Mei Yuit and Yap, Ngee Thai and Bolong, Jusang (2012) Learning culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian undergraduate students. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 20 (3). pp. 865-880. ISSN 0128-7702; ESSN: 2231-8534 http://pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2020%20(3)%20Sep.%202012/19%20pg%20865-880.pdf
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description 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.
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author Omidvar, Pegah
Chan, Mei Yuit
Yap, Ngee Thai
Bolong, Jusang
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Chan, Mei Yuit
Yap, Ngee Thai
Bolong, Jusang
Learning culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian undergraduate students
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Chan, Mei Yuit
Yap, Ngee Thai
Bolong, Jusang
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title Learning culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian undergraduate students
title_short Learning culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian undergraduate students
title_full Learning culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian undergraduate students
title_fullStr Learning culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian undergraduate students
title_full_unstemmed Learning culture of Iranian and Chinese-Malaysian undergraduate students
title_sort learning culture of iranian and chinese-malaysian undergraduate students
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
publishDate 2012
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40842/1/Learning%20culture%20of%20Iranian%20and%20Chinese-Malaysian%20undergraduate%20students.pdf
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