LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
his paper highlights the impact ofgender differences in English Language Teaching. It explores students' learning styles as affected by the notions about men and women differences in communication. The data collected in 2008 from 20 males and 20 females' English students of the State Univ...
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Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN)
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his paper highlights the impact ofgender differences in English Language Teaching. It explores students' learning styles as affected by the notions about men and women differences in communication. The data collected in 2008 from 20 males and 20 females' English students of the State University of Makassar. It is to reveal their attitudes towards speaking to different sex, strategy to express opinion, group work preferences, activeness/passiveness, and their perception to increase English skills dealing with sex difference. It is revealed that female than male students were reluctant to speak to different sex; females preferred the direct way to express opinions (writing), work with the same sex, and tended to be passive in class. In addition, females saw the high possibility to increase their English skills by working with the same sex but the reverse is true for males. These differentstyles of female and male students in learning English were affected by the notions of women's language.
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| spelling | doaj.art-691c8170b9834adf84692afd12f620ee2023-07-10T06:49:16ZengAssociation for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN)TEFLIN Journal0215-773X2356-26412015-08-0121210.15639/teflinjournal.v21i2/172-18535LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHINGMurni Mahmud0Universitas Negeri Makassar his paper highlights the impact ofgender differences in English Language Teaching. It explores students' learning styles as affected by the notions about men and women differences in communication. The data collected in 2008 from 20 males and 20 females' English students of the State University of Makassar. It is to reveal their attitudes towards speaking to different sex, strategy to express opinion, group work preferences, activeness/passiveness, and their perception to increase English skills dealing with sex difference. It is revealed that female than male students were reluctant to speak to different sex; females preferred the direct way to express opinions (writing), work with the same sex, and tended to be passive in class. In addition, females saw the high possibility to increase their English skills by working with the same sex but the reverse is true for males. These differentstyles of female and male students in learning English were affected by the notions of women's language. https://journal.teflin.org/index.php/journal/article/view/40gender differenceswomen's languagesingle-sex groupmixed-sex groupsame sexdifferent sex |
| spellingShingle | Murni Mahmud LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING TEFLIN Journal gender differences women's language single-sex group mixed-sex group same sex different sex |
| title | LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING |
| title_full | LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING |
| title_fullStr | LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING |
| title_full_unstemmed | LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING |
| title_short | LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING |
| title_sort | language and gender in english language teaching |
| topic | gender differences women's language single-sex group mixed-sex group same sex different sex |
| url | https://journal.teflin.org/index.php/journal/article/view/40 |
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