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Benjamin, Jane; Chen, Yih-Lan E. – 2003
This study examined the underlying factor structure of the Motivation Orientation Scale (MOS), determining its degree of consistency across two distinct cultures and identifying variables affecting students' motivation in learning a second language. The study investigated how intention theory with its three motivation orientations, and Gardner's…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language)
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Zeng, Kangmin; Le Tendre, Gerald – Comparative Education Review, 1998
Uses recent data and new theoretical perspectives to reexamine hypothesized links between academic competition and adolescent suicide in East Asia, particularly Japan. Finds no direct connection, discusses possible indirect effects on individual motives, and suggests a more complicated model. Analyzes how cultural and historical factors may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Competition, Competitive Selection
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Lin, Huey-Ling; Gorrell, Jeffrey – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2001
Compared the teaching efficacy scores and factor structures of early childhood and elementary preservice teachers in Taiwan at the beginning and end of their teacher education programs. Survey results highlighted the influence of cultural and/or social context, program context, and teaching experience on student teachers' efficacy beliefs. There…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Lin, Huey-Ling; Gorrell, Jeffrey; Taylor, Janet – 1998
This study examined preservice teachers' beliefs in light of potential cultural differences in perceived efficacy in Taiwan and America. Subjects were 240 preservice teachers at the beginning or the ending points of their teacher education programs in Taiwan and 231 comparable American preservice teachers. Subjects completed a revised version of…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
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Lin, Yu-Wei; Tsai, Min-Ling – Early Child Development and Care, 1996
Claims that kindergarten curriculum in Taiwan reflects both traditional Chinese values and the cultural changes that have taken place in modern times. Introduces the country's social context and changes in cultural values that have occurred due to multiculturalism. Points out that kindergarten curriculum now emphasizes cognitive development and is…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Traits, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education
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Zhang, Jie; Thomas, Darwin L. – Adolescence, 1994
Responses from college students in differing cultural settings contradicted modernization theory (MT). Contrary to MT, education held less importance as a social institution. American society highly valued religion with the reverse holding true in the two Chinese societies. MT tests with cross-cultural data should always consider cultural…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Students, Conformity, Congruence (Psychology)
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Chen, Fu-Mei; Luster Tom – Early Child Development and Care, 2002
This study examined factors related to authoritarian and authoritative parenting practices among 463 Chinese mothers with preschoolers in Taiwan. Questionnaire findings suggested that maternal depression, child temperament, and degree of parenting daily hassles might have cross-culturally universal influence on parenting practices. Chinese…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Rearing, Chinese Culture, Cultural Influences
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Lu, Mei-Hui; Hung, Jo-Lieh – Social Studies, 1999
Examines the forces enhancing democratic citizenship education in Taiwan focusing on the social, political, and cultural context of the country. Highlights the progress that has been made, reviews the factors that hinder the development of a democratic citizenship education, and considers its future in Taiwan (Republic of China). (CMK)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cultural Influences, Democracy, Democratic Values
Yen, Wen-Jiuan; Stevens, Pat – International Education Journal, 2004
The United States welcomes a great many international students each year. Asian students make up the fastest growing segment of this international student body. Asian students have to deal with bicultural conflicts on many fronts in order to achieve a balance between participating in a new cultural environment and maintaining their own cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Educational Experience, Study Abroad, Interviews
Tsou, Wenli – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2005
Many elementary EFL teachers in Taiwan have concerns in integrating target culture teaching into their language classrooms for reasons such as teachers' limited knowledge of the target culture, lack of time, lack of methods and materials. In order to persuade more language teachers to teach target language culture, guidelines about designing an…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Cultural Influences, Anthropology, Second Language Learning
Lin, Huey-Ling; Gorrell, Jeffrey – 1997
This study compared the efficacy beliefs of Taiwanese preservice teachers at the beginning of early childhood teacher preparation with those of preservice teachers near the end of preservice preparation. The 298 predominantly female participants were from 4 teacher colleges and a polytechnic institute. Participants completed a slightly revised…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Chen, Judy F.; Warden, Clyde A.; Chang, Huo-Tsan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2005
Language learning motivation plays an important role in both research and teaching, yet language learners are still largely understood in terms of North American and European cultural values. This research explored language learning motivation constructs in a Chinese cultural setting, where large numbers of students are required to study English.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Teaching Methods, North Americans
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Gonzalez, Virginia; Chen, Chia-Yin; Sanchez, Claudia – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
A Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language learner in Taiwan was tutored online by two American preservice teachers. Discourse patterns in the student's essays were perceived very differently by the preservice teachers and the student's Taiwanese instructor. Deeper psycholinguistic analysis revealed connections between the student's linguistic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Chinese Culture, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Babcock, Suzan P. – 1993
This paper examines the influence of Chinese (and specifically Taiwanese) culture on the conduct of English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction in Taiwan. Rapid economic development since the Second World War has led to a conflict of cultures, between traditional Chinese values and norms and Western…
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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Chen, Nicole Y.; Shaffer, David R.; Wu, Chenghuan – Journal of Social Psychology, 1997
Questions the current thesis that people from "collectivist" cultures are less likely to make character inferences based on physical attractiveness. Presents the results of a study that revealed Taiwanese undergraduates assigning positive character attributes to people based on their physical attractiveness. Discusses related literature…
Descriptors: Body Image, Chinese Culture, Cultural Background, Cultural Images
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