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The Relationship Between the Learning Styles of Chinese Students and the Needs of Chinese Society
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Abstract
This paper aims to provide a new aspect to explore the learning styles of Chinese students. After reading through previous research about the characteristics or learning styles of Chinese students, this paper found that most Western researchers considered Chinese students’ learning styles as a kind of negative, passive, rote-learning, and isolated learning style from the Western perspective. However, to truly understand Chinese education and students, we must look back at its history and cultural roots. This paper includes three main parts. The first part analyzed the three salient characteristics of Chinese students, and the second part described Chinese society and people’s behavior in Chinese culture. The last part examined how those characteristics formed through the learning process help Chinese students get used to Chinese society. This paper argued that the learning styles of the Chinese students seemed passive and negative at first glance; however, this learning style was formed based on the Chinese culture and enabled its students with a smooth path to their future society.
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Chinese education, characteristics of Chinese students, Chinese society, education system, Chinese culture, harmony, silent learning, self-study, rote learning
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Xu,Y. (2023). The Relationship Between the Learning Styles of Chinese Students and the Needs of Chinese Society. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,12,24-29.
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