Title: Language Classroom: A "Girls' Domain"? Female and Male Students' Perspectives on Language Learning.
Abstract: Substantial research has been done on gender differences in relation to various aspects of learning and teaching. In the field of language learning learner’s gender and its relationship with emotional (affective) components of language study has been a subject of numerous academic inquiries. These studies have focused on female and male students’ motivational patterns, classroom behaviour, conceptions of teacher-student interaction, etc. However, research on beliefs about language learning from the gender perspective has been lacking. The present study aims to address this gap and examines beliefs held by one hundred seven students learning a foreign (Russian) language at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). The participants were asked to respond to questionnaires after which the obtained data were computed and the statistical analysis was performed to assess whether the male and female students’ beliefs about language learning were significantly different. Pedagogical implications of the research findings are briefly discussed.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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