Intercultural language socialization of a Chinese MBA student in an American negotiation class

Shi, Xingsong

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2010.02.005

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“…Anderson's (2017) study showed that participants' initially being adversely affected socializing experiences would turn out to be self-reflective and mostly positive in their subsequent reactions, which is conducive to attaining students' academic success in linguistic practices. The confrontation, negotiation, and graduate integration of a variety of socio-cultural norms and systems show the complexity, multiplicity and fluidity innate in socialization process (Shi, 2010).…”

Section: Academic Outcomesmentioning

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Academic Discourse Socialization Through Oral Activities in Higher Education: A Systematic Review

Xiao,

Chen

2023

Sage Open

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Despite several attempts made to analyze students’ socialization into academic discourse in relevant reviews, we still lack a topical study providing an overview of how students are apprenticed into academic communities through oral activities at post-secondary institutions. This study aims at contributing to a comprehensive overview of both theoretical and empirical studies in the field of academic discourse socialization (ADS). A systematic review approach was adopted due to the qualitative and quantitative research design and connections between theory and evidence. The material search of ADS literature published between 2000 and 2022 resulted in 72 studies in total. While the synthesis of theoretical studies reveal the extant definitions, categorization of characteristics and theoretical orientations, the empirical study findings compare differences in participants and contexts, research approaches, communication events, and academic outcomes. This review also discusses major areas of research concerning ADS, mainly types of socialization agents, students’ feedback, learners’ identity construction, and assessment of consequences of ADS. With limitations concluded, the review encourages further focused investigation into micro-macro connections, application of digital technologies, a wider range of participants, disciplines and contexts, multiple types of oral activities and perspectives, learners’ linguistic production as well as correlation of oral and written texts, and joint efforts from multiple sides.

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Section: Academic Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Academic Discourse Socialization Through Oral Activities in Higher Education: A Systematic Review

Xiao,

Chen

2023

Sage Open

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“…This marginalized status is also gendered. For example, a Chinese female named Cai in Shi () found herself marginalized in a U.S. MBA classroom when she performed her identity both according to valued traits of American business culture, which in her perception required that she be tough and strong, and according to traditional Chinese ideas of female gender identity, which required that she be submissive and caring. Performing both cultural identity expressions put Cai in a double bind, as it were, and she was criticized for not successfully presenting herself in ways appropriate to typical U.S. business negotiations.…”

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“She Needs to Be Shy!”: Gender, Culture, and Nonparticipation Among Saudi Arabian Female Students

Song

2018

TESOL Quarterly

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This article examines Saudi female students' socialization process in mixed-gender interactions during their study abroad, focusing on how they negotiate culture-specific gender expectations of women's deference and modesty. Findings reveal that Saudi women's deference to maintaining an ideal image of Saudi womanhood makes shyness and fear of judgment predominant aspects of their gender identity. Saudi women's adherence to these norms often leads to their nonparticipation in classroom and social interactions, and a deeper ambivalence is indicated when they seek social and academic opportunities through active participation. Findings also demonstrate that Saudi women use religion to both justify and challenge gender identity norms. Women who comply with Saudi gender norms assert that these norms are prescribed by the tenets of Islam; those who resist these norms argue their irrelevance with respect to Islam. Saudi women's religious interpretations serve to empower their own sense of gender identity, which signifies their agency founded on ideological and cultural constraints in the context of religion. This study offers implications for second language learners' nonparticipation in relation to gender, highlighting how gender norms intersect with other discursive categories, particularly ethnicity, culture, and its central aspect here, religion.

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“…In Cai's case, the threat of losing face formed a strong regulating force that pushed her to take quick and deliberate actions to conform to the accepted behavioral norms in the negotiation class. Although Cai's compliance to the 'win-win' negotiation strategy could be nothing more than superficial conformity at the moment (Shi, 2010), her social needs to maintain her face, under that circumstance, could hardly give her any other choice but to show absolute readiness to comply.…”

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The impact of face on Chinese students' simulated negotiation practices with Americans

Shi

2011

Language and Intercultural Communication

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Through scrutinizing three simulated negotiation cases of Chinese MBA students in an American business school, the study illustrates how Chinese face ideology functioned to orient and complicate the students' (pseudo-)business communications with Americans. The students' bone-deep sensitivity to maintaining harmony and interrelationships in the social network regulated one student to show complete compliance to the legitimate behavioral norm in the class, led one to avoid conflicts by giving and saving face to his opponent, and helped one to facilitate and maneuver interactions to win a negotiation. In any case, Chinese face was not self-oriented, but earned through interactions with the community.

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Intercultural language socialization of a Chinese MBA student in an American negotiation class

Cited by 28 publications

References 10 publications

Academic Discourse Socialization Through Oral Activities in Higher Education: A Systematic Review

Academic Discourse Socialization Through Oral Activities in Higher Education: A Systematic Review

“She Needs to Be Shy!”: Gender, Culture, and Nonparticipation Among Saudi Arabian Female Students

The impact of face on Chinese students' simulated negotiation practices with Americans

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