Judged by You Accent

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Reading summary #6

The article “Judged by you accent” is pretty interested to me and I totally agree with the idea. This article said the writer made an experiment which invited two professors who is native English speaker and another is Chinese. These two professors dressed similar, accompanied by the same voice and give out the same lecture “the New York time”. The only difference between them is their outlook and ethic. Unfortunately, the experiment result showed us students made less recall of the class from Chinese professor than the native English speaker.  This is pretty sad, because people always judged a person by his accent. I understand listen to a foreign speaker specially from china and japan can be difficult, because we have seriousness accent and grammar mistake.  Listener has to 100% focus on the speaker, so that can understand what they are talking about. Long time forcing can make listener feel tired that’s why they prefer the tune of voices similar to their own. The way to fix this problem is not only encouraging urge foreign professor to drop their accents, but also educated students on how to listen to someone who are unlike themselves.  

According to the “leadership styles in multicultural groups Americans and east Asian working together”, it said differing discursive leadership style can affect the participation and contribution of members. For Chinese executives want their member to be benevolence, harmony with others, follow their leader but not independent thinking. However, for American executive, they really pay attention to their worker’s independent and creative thinking.  The article also said there have five communication styles which are decisive and task oriented, involved others in decision making process, modest compassionate and supportive, independent and self-reliant and statutes conscious and procedural. American team member feels the decisive and task oriented is the most important, however, Chinese valued status conscious and procedural. Because of the value difference, we need to learn how to set up the global cooperative leadership style which is respect, understanding and trust other member’s culture and enable better joint decision making.