LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 7 July 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Gender Differences and L2 Writing

Abdul Saeed, Mohammad Ramazan, Ph.D., Aijaz Ahmed Gujjar, and
Javed Iqbal, Ph.D.

Abstract

Different researchers tried to find out the proficiency difference in Second Language Learning between male and female gender. Most of these researchers found women as better language learners than their counterparts. The present study was also an attempt to investigate the idea of gender difference in learning Second Language through a composition test. Errors of only Past Indefinite tense were analysed. The subjects of the study were the students of Graduation level at Bahawalpur City, Pakistan. Quantitative research paradigm was followed by the researcher for the present study. The data were collected through composition test based on free writing. Results revealed that the female students committed less errors of L2 writing as compared to male students. Thus, females can be said better language learners than males.

Key words: Gender, Composition, Past tense.

1.1 Introduction

Learning Second Language (L2) is deemed to be a quite different phenomenon from Mother Tongue (L1) acquisition. Mistakes and errors, no doubts, are committed while learning both L1 and L2. Native speakers of any language either children or adults make errors in their day-to-day use of language. But, it is probably true to say that these errors are not generally treated as errors in the same sense as those produced by L2 learners.

Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are the four steps that have to be followed in the process of learning any language. Listening and Speaking are generally considered as primary skills while Reading and Writing are deemed to be secondary. While speaking, other sources also help in communicating any message such as postures, gestures, tone etc. but in written medium all the information has to be conveyed without any aid other than language itself.

 

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Abdul Saeed
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Kirakoram International University, Gilgit, Pakistan
saeedabdul2212@gmail.com

Mohammad Ramazan
Associate Professor
Department of Education
Kirakoram International University,Gilgit, Pakistan
Dr.ramzan@kiu.edu.pk


Aijaz Ahmed Gujjar
Lecturer
Federal College of Education H-9, Islamabad, Pakistan
Seek_to_learn@yahoo.com


Javed Iqbal
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Kirakoram International University, Gilgit, Pakistan
javed.iqbal@kiu.edu.pk


 


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