Cultural Values Determining Students’ Time Management

Abstract

The aim of this research study entitled Cultural Values Determining Students’ Time Management is to investigate the influence of cultural values on the time management of EFL Master 2 students of Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University. In other words, the attempt to study whether cultural values are indispensable for students‟ success in managing time has been initiated. Moreover, the study attempts to find out what of these cultural values, be they native or foreign, are more influential among students. This study is driven by the assumption that cultural values determine students‟ time management, and that these values will manifest in the way time is managed. Therefore, a questionnaire was designed and administered to 25 Master 2 students. A quantitative research methodology has been used to explore the issue of cultural values to understand the underlying reasons of the students‟ behaviors related to how they manage their time.The findings show that Master 2 students have been influenced by both native and foreign culture values (66.36 % for the former and 79.20 % for the latter) which means that cultural values determine students‟ time management with a slight preference of (12.84 %) to managing time via English cultural values.