Final Year Project (FYP)Authors: Phạm, Thị Ngọc Thanh; Advisor: Hoàng, Thị Hạnh (2015)
Classroom interactions in relation to intercultural communication constitute one of the important issues that have been drawn much attention to by researchers. This paper attempts to investigate the reflections of Power Distance, one of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, in the teacher-student and student-student interactions in English lessons of high school. In this study, qualitative research design has been employed with the use of classroom observations, retrospective interviews and semi-structured debriefing sessions, and with the participation of 130 high school students and their English teachers. The research results reveal
that in teacher-student interaction, high power distan...