The influence of some VietNamese cultural factors on peer comments in writing by freshmen at ULIS-VNU = Ảnh hưởng của một vài yếu tố văn hóa Việt Nam đến nhận xét chéo trong môn viết của sinh viên năm nhất trường đại học Ngoại ngữ - ĐHQGHN

• Main Author: Đỗ, Tuấn Long
• Other Authors: Đào, Thị Thu Trang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Kỹ năng viết; Tiếng Anh; Tiếng Việt
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/100203
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

This study was conducted with the participation of 50 freshmen and 10 lecturers from FELTE, ULIS-VNU. We have tried to find out Vietnamese cultural factors that have influence on peer comments given by Vietnamese freshmen and their typical ways of commenting in the 2011 - 2012 academic school-year. It was found that Vietnamese freshmen used more indirect ways of expressing their attitudes, feeling rather than direct ones, and this result is the same with many results of other previous qualitative and quantitative studies. However, it was proven in this case study that if other researchers showed Vietnamese exploited more positive politeness rather than negative politeness, this study represented the opposite thing, i.e. negative politeness was used more often than positive politeness. It was concluded that the influence of Vietnamese culture could be seen through comments by freshmen. Additionally, the researcher also found that Vietnamese freshmen used same ways of commenting like English natives, which signified that they first identified problem(s) and then suggested hints for improvements. Last but not least, problems, i.e. words choice and sentence structures that freshmen had when giving comments were also found. Basing on those problems, the researcher suggested a three-period teaching schedule which lecturers could use to teach freshmen how to give comments like what English natives actually did to avoid potential offense.