Language and Gender

Language and Gender

Chapter 1: Introduction

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Chapter 2: Literature Review

Research on gender and foreign language education emerges against the backdrop of scholarship that began in the early to mid-1970s on womale and language and feminist studies in the psychology of gender. The work of Lakoff (1975), and of the contributors to Thorne and Henley's (1975) volume, established what has now become a rich field of language and genderstudies. This early work on gender and language focused primarily on the differences among male and womale in their styles of communication and explored such issues as the use of tag questions, turns at talk, length of time in holding the floor, interruptions, and information solicitation in demarcating womale's speech as a product of womale's place in a male-dominated social order.

In foreign language education, the work of Gass and Varonis (1986) and Pica et al. (1991) explores similar questions about the impact of gender on conversational strategies used by native and nonnative speakers, although the cultural context out of which these differences might emerge was absent in their work. In paired conversations among nonnative speakers, Gass and Varonis (1986) determined that the patterns of negotiation of meaning that existed in same-sex versus opposite-sex interactions differed along gender lines: in mixed sex dyads, womale provided more comprehensible input (such as information seeking or follow-up questions) and male more comprehensible output (information or responses to questions). In paired conversations among native speakers and nonnative speakers, Pica et al. (1991) determined that womale negotiate meaning more actively with a female native-speaker interlocutor than with a male native-speaker interlocutor.

This strand of exploration on the effect of sexual orientation on the arrangemalet of importance in classroom settings has proceeded, on top of different methodologies, through the 1990s to the present. For example, Meunier (1994) raises the question as to whether the 'genderlects' of the first language re-emerge in the language of the foreign language classroom. Like Meunier, Chavez (2000) explores gender as used in the discourse of the German classroom and corroborates much of the findings of other researchers, namely, that while male are more talkative in the classroom (Meunier, Sunderland), womale ...