Description

• Title:
  The impact of gender on attainment in learning English as a foreign language
• Creator:
  Główka, Danuta
• Description:
  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.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2016 Danuta Główka
• Date:
  2014.01.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Vol. 4 No. 4 (2014); 617-635;
  Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching; Tom 4 Nr 4 (2014); 617-635;
  2084-1965;
  2083-5205
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/3911/3962
• Subject:
  gender;
  attainment;
  learning English as a foreign language
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/3911
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text