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Appendix B
Appendix B
Appendix B
Survey for Chinese Graduate Students
My name is Yun Zhang, and I am a second year graduate student in TESOL program at USD.
You are invited to participate in a research study that I am conducting to explore what factors
affect Chinese graduate students oral participation in multicultural and multilingual
classrooms in the United States. I would be happy to share the results of this study with you
once the study has been completed. Thank you so much for your time! Your feedback is
important.
Your participation in this survey will take a total of 20 minutes.
Please check/ highlight the following box to indicate your consent after reading the attached
information related to your participation in this study.
I consent to completing this survey after reading consent agreement.
80-90
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< 80
7. Have you ever attended any English training in the U.S. before?
Yes
No
8. Are most of your courses seminar type?
Yes
No
9. Please complete the following questionnaire:
This questionnaire is to explore Your Own True Feelings and Experience about the
following situations that relate to your oral participation experience in class. Please think
about your own feelings and experience, which are not what you think other students may
experience.
No. Question
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I will motivate myself to orally participate in class
even though oral participation is not a mandatory
requirement for the class.
2.
I feel that I am the type of person who will speak up
as long as I have ideas to share with the class.
3.
I feel that I am a talkative person and I like to share
my ideas with others in English.
4.
I feel that I keep the Chinese cultural value that
being quiet in the class is the way that I show my
respect to the professors.
5.
I feel that this cultural value (being quiet is the way
that I show respect to professors) orientates my
behavior in oral participation.
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