The influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian Secondary School

This study investigates the influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian school. It focuses on the relationship between cultural orientation and anxiety uncertainty management and language usage. Data were collected from 20 Chinese and Indian students from a Malaysia...

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Main Authors:	Thilagha Jaganathan, Manjit Kaur
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2003
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3104/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3104/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3104/1/1.pdf

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spelling	ukm-31042016-12-14T06:33:36Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3104/ The influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian Secondary School Thilagha Jaganathan, Manjit Kaur, This study investigates the influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian school. It focuses on the relationship between cultural orientation and anxiety uncertainty management and language usage. Data were collected from 20 Chinese and Indian students from a Malaysian secondary school through a set of questionnaire to look into the cultural orientation and to identify its influence on the students' communicative style. The results indicate that the cultural orientation among the Chinese and Indian students vary on a continuum from high individualistic orientation to high collectivistic orientation. There is an almost equal distribution of individualists and collectivists among the Chinese students while there are more collectivists among the Indian students. The relationship between cognitive (uncertainty) and affective (anxiety) factors and the two selected aspects of language (beliefs about talks and direct-indirect communication) do not reciprocate indicating that other factors like personality, individual values and self-constructs influence one's communicative style. The collectivists on the other hand also exhibit similar relationship. The results contradict with the general characteristics of the individualistic and collectivistic orientation and recent work linking it with AUM theory. Theoretical implications are discussed. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2003 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3104/1/1.pdf Thilagha Jaganathan, and Manjit Kaur, (2003) The influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian Secondary School. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 8 . pp. 63-76. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LArchives.html
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description	This study investigates the influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian school. It focuses on the relationship between cultural orientation and anxiety uncertainty management and language usage. Data were collected from 20 Chinese and Indian students from a Malaysian secondary school through a set of questionnaire to look into the cultural orientation and to identify its influence on the students' communicative style. The results indicate that the cultural orientation among the Chinese and Indian students vary on a continuum from high individualistic orientation to high collectivistic orientation. There is an almost equal distribution of individualists and collectivists among the Chinese students while there are more collectivists among the Indian students. The relationship between cognitive (uncertainty) and affective (anxiety) factors and the two selected aspects of language (beliefs about talks and direct-indirect communication) do not reciprocate indicating that other factors like personality, individual values and self-constructs influence one's communicative style. The collectivists on the other hand also exhibit similar relationship. The results contradict with the general characteristics of the individualistic and collectivistic orientation and recent work linking it with AUM theory. Theoretical implications are discussed.
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title	The influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian Secondary School
title_short	The influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian Secondary School
title_full	The influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian Secondary School
title_fullStr	The influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian Secondary School
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title_sort	influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a malaysian secondary school
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2003
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3104/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3104/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3104/1/1.pdf
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The influence of culture on the communicative style of students in a Malaysian Secondary School

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