After firstly investigating the correlations among students' omniscient authority beliefs, students' perceived teacher-directedness, and students' intra-group communication behaviors, this research explored the cultural differences between American students and Chinese students regarding to these variables. A total of 89 Chinese students and 131 American students participated in this research. The results indicated that students' naïve omniscient authority beliefs were positively correlated with their perceptions of higher teacher-directedness and negatively correlated with the mega-cognitive perspective of intra-group communication behavior. Meanwhile, differences were found between Chinese and American cultural groups with regards to students' omniscient authority beliefs, perceived teacher-directedness, and communication behaviors during cooperative learning. Chinese students tended to rely on themselves as the resources of information and knowledge and Chinese students perceived less teacher-directedness compared to American students. As to within-group communication behaviors, Chinese students were more excelled at time management while American students were more excelled at maintaining group affection. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art. / Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2007. / Date of Defense: March 2, 2007. / SLA, Epistemological Beliefs, Instruction / Includes bibliographical references. / Jeanine E. Turner, Professor Directing Thesis; John Keller, Committee Member; Susan C. Losh, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_168674 |
| Contributors | Zhou, Feng (authoraut), Turner, Jeanine E. (professor directing thesis), Keller, John (committee member), Losh, Susan C. (committee member), Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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