摘 要

     西方学者普遍认为，Plagiarism(抄袭剽窃)行为被西方社区之外的很多国家接纳，并将其归因于学习者与英语本族语者之间的文化差异。为了检验此理论，研究者对中国某高校201名本科生展开相关问卷调查，内容涉及这些学习者对Plagiarism定义的知晓程度、对抄袭者的看法与评价以及引发抄袭剽窃的主要原因。结果显示，绝大多数学生不接受剽窃行为；剽窃行为与中西方文化价值观的差异无关，而是因为学习者缺乏对Plagiarism定义的理解。研究表明中国学校要加强对学生的学术训练。
  
关键词：抄袭剽窃；文化差异； 认识；诚信

Abstract

There has been a belief among most western scholars that due to cultural difference, plagiarism is acceptable in many countries outside western community. In order to test this theory, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 201 undergraduates in one of Chinese universities , involving the degree learners is knowledgeable about plagiarism, the attitude they hold toward plagiarizers and the factors affecting the plagiarism. And the result shows that the majority say no to plagiarism, and it is not cultural difference that leads to the act but learners’ less knowledge about the plagiarism. Thus, more attention should be paid to academic training of students in Chinese higher education.

Keywords: plagiarism; cultural difference ；perception ; honest

Chapter 1 Introduction
There has been a major influx of Chinese students to western universities since 1998, and according to the statistics from Shenzhen News, by the end of 2010, the number of Chinese oversea students has jump over 2,500,000 . ［1］.As more and more Chinese learners come to the western world to pursue higher education, various problems begin to surface . Many of them are regarded as plagiarizer due to their improper use of source text, which is considered to be plagiarism in the western. And this phenomenon has drawn many scholars' attention . Many national and international studies on the topic reveal that students and researchers commit plagiarism for some reasons in some ways, and this violation of the academic ethics is being hindered through certain sanctions . As for Asian students ,some holds that it is cultural difference that leads to plagiarism , since it is acceptable in their mother collectivism culture.
Along these lines,this study was carried out to investigate the phenomenon of Chinese learners’ plagiarizing behaviour , to test the above cultural difference theory.