A Study of Chinese College Students’ Face Needs in EFL Class

• 作者: 张卉
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: FACE needs POSITIVE FACE NEGATIVE FACE Chinese COLLEGE students foreign language teaching
• 年，卷（期）: hwyyb_2011,（13）
• 页码范围: 117-118
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: H319

摘要

Based on Brown &Levinson’s Face Threatening Acts and Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions,this study is an analysis of Chinese college students’ face needs in EFL class.In this study,the subjects are 116 freshmen,non-English majors.Selecting totally 60 students from them and dividing them into two groups according to their scores of College English Entrance Examination.The collected data from questionnaire are analyzed by statistical software SPSS16.0 version.The major findings from the analysis include the following:1) high-scored students and low-scored students have similar positive face needs;2) Weight of imposition,group tendency and uncertainty avoidance are used to exam students’ negative face needs.According to the data in SPSS16.0,there is a difference between the two groups in terms of the weight of imposition.But the Independent-Samples T test of Sum of Questionnaire indicates that there is no distinct difference in the negative face needs between the two groups.

作者信息

序号	姓名	单位	发文数	被引次数	H指数	G指数
1	张卉	南京工业职业技术学院外语系	16	10	2.0	2.0