【正文】 S21Total246This item is to test if a student will reduce difficulty for the class to answer questions through raising the questions at the beginning of presentation. percents of the subjects choose “yes I will”, among whom percents choose it due to concern with both their own and the respondent’s face. In item 12 and item 13, the degree of concern of others’ face is greatly deepened, but this feature does not show in this item. Therefore the researcher pick a random number of subject who choose “I will not” with the aim to find the reason. The result shows they are afraid that raising question first will cause listeners focus on finding the answer. 5. Conclusion This thesis is a case study of college students’ face related apprehension 。S12Total246Table Item 11: I act like that because I care about face. With the presence of a third party, percents of the respondents admits that they will try to act actively. And among them, percents consider about both the teacher and their own face. It indicates what the third party’s observation of the teaching situation is actually inauthentic. Students’ Apprehension of StudentTeacher CommunicationTable Item 13: With an outsider in class, I will point out it if the teacher makes a mistake.FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative PercentValidNO I WILL NOT204YES I WILL42Total246This item is designed to be a contrast with item 6. With an outsider in class, the percentage of students choosing to point out the teacher’s mistake drops rapidly. There is only percents of them will do so. More of the students tent to save others’ face during such condition. Students’ Apprehension of StudentStudent municationTable Item 12: With an outsider in class, I will point it out if the student doing a presentation makes a mistake. FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative PercentValidNO I WILL NOT192YES I WILL54Total246This item is designed to be a contrast with item 7. With an outsider in class, the percentage of students choose to point out the student’s drops. This accords with the description of zijiaren of Zhai(2011). At first in item 7, there is no present of the outsider and the students are familiar with each other, they do not care much about others’ face very much. In item 12, with a third party in class, the students realize they are closer to the student doing a presentation than to the outsider, this distinction make the students see that student as zijiaren, and are inclined to save that student’s face. Students’ Apprehension of StudentClass CommunicationTable 14Item 14: With an outsider in class, I will first tell the class what questions I am going to ask, then begin my presentation.( If you choose “YES I WILL”, please answer Q15.)FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative PercentValidNO I WILL NOT111YES I WILL135Total246 Table Item 15: I act like that because I care about face.FrequencyPercentValid PercentCumulative PercentValid（pass）111BOTH PEOPLE39。S99IT IS A HABIT AND IT IS NOT BECAUSE I CONCERN ABOUT ANYONE39。s Alpha Based on Standardized ItemsN of Items.697.6965N= numberTable ItemTotal StatisticsScale Mean if Item DeletedScale Variance if Item DeletedCorrected ItemTotal CorrelationSquared Multiple CorrelationCronbach39。 (6) awareness of one’s own reputation. Zijiaren (InGroup and OutGroup ) Zhai Xuewei (2011) pointed out that Chinese’s action of saving others’ face is rather plex. It is related to the proximity and condition. If A consider B a zijiaren and save B’s face with D’s presence, it doesn’t mean A will always save B’s face, A may consider C a zijiaren and save C’s face with B’s presence. The change of A’s action can be caused by proximity and interest relationship, like C is in A’s group of best friends, B is in A’s group of regular friends and C is a stranger. If someone were a zijiaren and whose face he/she will save is decided by A. Tajfel’s (1978) concept of ingroup and outgroup can be used to explain “zijiaren”. An ingroup is a social group a person consider himself is a member of it and an outgroup is a social group a person consider himself doesn’t belong to. There are many similarities between ingroup and zijiaren. If someone is considered a zijiaren, then he/she belongs to a certain social group which is defined by social relations, blood relationship, even birthplace or surname. A mutual face shared with the group. There is also difference between these two. Zijiaren is a social group delimited by a person and this person use the definition of the group to judge if others belong to the group, while an ingroup is a definition of certain social group and the definition is for self judgment. The definition of what is a zijiaren is rather fugitive and it is relative. It will also influence one’s apprehension of which one’s or collective’s face is more important. For example, students will care about their own face when in front of a bunch of students but care less about teacher’s face, but they will save teacher’s face when there is an observer, because under this condition the observer is a outsider and the teacher is a zijiaren. 3. Methodology SubjectsThere are 246 English major students in Hangzhou Normal University responding the questionnaire. 109 of them are senior students, 52 of them are junior students, 44 of them are second year students, 51 of them are first year students. Only 16 o