POWER DISTANCE IN UNIVERSITY CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT, MANIFESTED BY VIETNAMESE-TRAINED TEACHERS AND OVESEAS-TRAINED VIETNAMESE TEACHERS OF ENGLISH

• Tác giả: Thúy Chinh Lê
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: Tạp chí Khoa học - Trường Đại học Hải Phòng: Giáo dục - Xã hội - Nhân văn, 2023
• Mô tả vật lý: tr.26
• Bộ sưu tập: Báo, Tạp chí
• ID: 341234

Tóm tắt

This paper investigated power distance manifested byVietnamese-trained teachers and overseas-trained Vietnamese teachers ofEnglish in the university environment. The study used the power distancedimension introduced by Hofstede (1991, 2001) as a framework to investigatethe power distance manifestation in English classrooms. A mixed methodsresearch design was employed. 28 teachers from both groups of teachers werechosen to take part in the research in the principle of the purposive samplingmethod. Meanwhile structured questionnaires and semi-structured interviewswere used to collect data on classroom environment, thematic analysis was themain data analysis method. The findings revealed that the chosen researchparticipants displayed both high power distance and low power distancemanifestation regardless of the official recognisation of Vietnam as a high powerdistance nation. The findings suggested that English teachers’ perspectives onpower distance possibly form a foundation for competency-based education inVietnam.