文档介绍：A Case Study on Intercultural Communication
1. Case Satement
Professor Johnson, a professor of Chicago Booth businesse students regard teachers as persons from a high power class, so they don’t doubt the authority of teachers. This is why Chinese students don
’t like to ask teachers any questions at the class. If they have some questions, they prefer to ask after the class. They can left the face by doing like this.
Secondly, the educational modle of America and of China are quite diefferent. In the United States, the traditional education method is trial and error, that is to say, students repeat to practice by themselves and to make mistakes, so finally they understand what is the truthy. This situation often require students to learn to be more autonomic, while the teacher’s task is to answear questions and not to inculcate knowledge. So American teachers like to ask questions, and to be asked at the same time. While in our country, the most common educational way is to watch and learn, that is to say, when the teacher tells you what it is, students just need to remember it. It is the all things that students can do in our classroom. This is one reason for the passive learning of Chinese students. So Chinese students are less autonomic than American students. They don’t like to ask any questions.
Thirdly, the meaning of eye contact is different in China and in the U