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Alternative Explanations for the Confucian Asian High Performance and High Self Doubt Paradox: Commentary on "Unforgiving Confucian Culture: A Breeding Ground for High Academic Achievement, Test Anxiety and Self-Doubt?" by Lazar Stankov
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Mok, Magdalena Mo Ching – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
This commentary reflects upon Lazar Stankov's thesis which regards "unforgiving nature of Confucian Asian societies" as the driving force underpinning academic success of students from these societies. The commentary considers theoretical perspectives put forward by Jian Wang and Emily Lin (2008), and by Chiu and Klassen (2010) as two alternative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Test Anxiety, Confucianism, Asian Culture
Rhetorical Strategies, Electronic Media, and China English
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You, Xiaoye – World Englishes, 2008
Scholars tend to explain or predict China English's rhetorical strategies on the basis of Chinese discourse and cultural preferences. This inference model, I argue, falls short in studying the Chinese variety of English because, first, it essentializes both China English and Chinese, treating their discursive strategies as two easily…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
A Chinese Perspective of Communication Competence.
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Chen, Guo-Ming – 1993
To avoid the Anglo-Saxon culture mode, which dominates the current study of human communication in all contexts, the concept of communication competence can be examined from the perspective of Chinese culture. The conceptualization and empirical indicators used for the measurement of communication competence strongly reflect a Western cultural…
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Communicative Competence (Languages), Confucianism, Cultural Context