A Cross-cultural Understanding of Korean Students in the British Academic Context
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Back, Ju-hyun. 2010. A Cross-cultural Understanding of Korean Students in the British Academic Context. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal. 18(3). 71-91. A questionnaire-based survey was undertaken with 124 Korean students enrolled at 16 UK universities to gain an broad overview where the main problems perceived to lie in relation to cultural factors, such as face, hierarchy and indirectness. The participants showed a fairly high level of passivity in the classroom interaction, unfamiliarity with the strictness in referencing and with different rhetorical pattern in written English discourse, which corresponds to many findings for Chinese students at UK universities. Interestingly, the Korean students seemed to have a favourable attitude toward supervisory meetings in the UK, which contrasts with majority of the previous findings for Chinese students who showed a high level of dissatisfaction with teachers' guidance in the UK, although both would have problem with interacting with their supervisors. The responses to the survey gave a clear indication that, apart from language difficulties, some degree of integration into the host culture was felt to be an important aspect of studying abroad by many of the students and also led to a better understanding of intragroup differences within the homeogenous group of confucian culture.
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Back, Ju-hyun. 2010. A Cross-cultural Understanding of Korean Students in the British Academic Context. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal. 18(3). 71-91. A questionnaire-based survey was undertaken with 124 Korean students enrolled at 16 UK universities to gain an broad overview where the main problems perceived to lie in relation to cultural factors, such as face, hierarchy and indirectness. The participants showed a fairly high level of passivity in the classroom interaction, unfamiliarity with the strictness in referencing and with different rhetorical pattern in written English discourse, which corresponds to many findings for Chinese students at UK universities. Interestingly, the Korean students seemed to have a favourable attitude toward supervisory meetings in the UK, which contrasts with majority of the previous findings for Chinese students who showed a high level of dissatisfaction with teachers' guidance in the UK, although both would have problem with interacting with their supervisors. The responses to the survey gave a clear indication that, apart from language difficulties, some degree of integration into the host culture was felt to be an important aspect of studying abroad by many of the students and also led to a better understanding of intragroup differences within the homeogenous group of confucian culture.
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