The impact of gender on attainment in learning English as a foreign language

• Authors: Danuta Główka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study examined the impact of gender on students’ achievement in learning English as a for-eign language in secondary and higher vocational schools in Poland, as well as teachers’ and stu-dents’ opinions concerning the importance of this influence. The collected data provided ample evidence that girls achieved significantly better results than boys. Such results support the socio-linguistic finding that female students outperform males as they are more open to new linguistic forms in the target language and eradicate interlanguage forms that deviate from target lan-guage norms more readily than their male counterparts (Ellis, 2012). However, these findings were not reflected in the opinions of the student and teacher participants. Both parties held a strong conviction that gender played no major role in learning English. The article concludes by outlining some implications for educational policy makers and foreign language teachers.

Keywords

EN

gender; attainment; learning English as a foreign language

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 617-635

Dates

cover

2014-12

Contributors

author

Danuta Główka

• Higher Vocational State School in Leszno Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/ssllt.2014.4.4.3