| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 應用英語學系碩士班 === 96 === Group activities, such as group discussion and group work, are applied more frequently in ESL/EFL classroom. However, groups, consisting of more than one person, sometimes cannot perform as well as an individual does. According to the established studies and what many of those involved in teamwork have experienced, social loafing, which implies a free ride fallacy, seems to be a key reason. Whether and how social loafing must turn out destructive or undermining jointed effort made by a group thus remain problematic and deserve further exploration. With the fact that more students are requested to attend academic activities that are characterized by division of labor and mutual cooperation, this paper attempts to (1) examine whether cultural orientation, which is attested as the determiner of human behavior, is the crucial causal factor for social loafing occurring in ESL/EFL classroom and (2) deduce who has more possibility to loaf. The result of this study reveals that cultural orientation stands for a crucial explanation for social loafing, and students from collectivistic orientation are less possible to loaf. This research tries to provide teachers with insights into students’ cultural orientations when they group their students to conduct a class. For advanced studies related to group work, this research could serve as a rough reference and provide a clear framework.
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