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Title: Exploring the gender effect on EFL learners' beliefs about language learning
Related: Australian journal of educational and developmental psychology (AJEDP), Vol. 7, p.79-91
Related: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Research%20Centres/SORTI/Journals/AJEDP/Vol%207/v7-bernat_lloyd.pdf
Publisher: University of Newcastle
Date: 2007
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
Author/Creator: Bernat, Eva
Author/Creator: Lloyd, Rosemarie
Description: This study investigated the relationship between beliefs about language learning and gender. The Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory (BALLI), consisting of 34 items, was administered to 155 female and 107 male English as a Foreign Language students enrolled in an Academic English Program. The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test was employed to investigate gender difference. Results indicate that overall males and females held similar beliefs about language learning, with only one item being statistically significant and another one being marginally significant. These results deviate from those reported in a previous study conducted in the U.S. Possible reasons for this are explored in the discussion.
Description: 13 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
Subject Keyword: gender
Subject Keyword: EFL
Subject Keyword: beliefs
Subject Keyword: language learning
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Linguistics

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/72035
Identifier: ISSN:1446-5442
Identifier: mq-rm-2007003665
Language: eng
Rights: Copyright the Publisher 2007. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
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