LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:3 March 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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The Impact of Gender of People's Learned Language on Their Mother Tongue Habitual Thinking Patterns

Davood Madani, Ph.D. Scholar
Islamic Azad University, Khomein Branch, Iran
Fatemeh Aziz Mohammadi, Ph.D.
Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Iran
Mahsa Kayedian
Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch
Arak, Iran

Abstract

This study is intended to investigate the impact of gender of peoples' learned language on their mother tongue habitual thinking patterns. To reveal the link between gender and frequency use of the new habitual thinking patterns of new language on their mother tongue habitual thought, 80 (40 male, 40 female) Iranian students of universities were selected randomly. The data was gathered through Written Discourse Completion Test (WDCT) and background questionnaires. Then the data was analyzed through Two-Way ANOVA to find whether the habitual thinking patterns of Iranian female students of English, Arabic and Turkish languages are more influenced by their majors of study in comparison to the influence of these learned languages on the male learners.

Key terms: gender, language learning, habitual thinking patterns

Introduction – Gender versus Sex Identity

In the general sense, the notions “sex” and “gender” are perceived to be synonymous and in some studies they are used interchangeably. But postmodernist scholars believe that gender is not a biological fact at all. According to Butler (1990), there are brute facts of biology and gender is a phenomenon which is brought into being when it is performed. In her own words, “Gender is the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a ‘natural’ kind of being” (Butler, 1990, p.32). Gender is therefore not something you acquire once and for all at an early stage of life, but an ongoing accomplishment produced by your repeated actions (Cameron, 2004).

One’s gender is not equivalent to his/her sex; though, most of the time, building on the biological base he/she has from birth, he/she constructs it through his/her life with the experiences which take place first in the family, and then in society. One’s social context and culture he/she lives in shapes his/her gender identity accompanied with unique individual experiences. As a consequence, every society has a distinct gender identity and any individual living in them may or may not comply with the presumed gender identity (as cited in Aslan, 2009).

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Davood Madani, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Islamic Azad University, Khomein Branch, Iran
Dr_madaniling@yahoo.com

Fatemeh Aziz Mohammadi, Ph.D.
Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Iran
F.Azizmohamadi@yahoo.com

Mahsa Kayedian
Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch
Arak, Iran
m.kayedian@yahoo.com

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