Investigating Gender Differences in Pronunciation Performance Among EFL Learners. The Case of Third Year Students at the Department of English at M'sila University.
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Date
2022-06
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UNIVERSITY OF MOHAMED BOUDIAF
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From an early age,women and men start to be socialized to fit the assigned roles
related to their biological sex. Those gender roles are reflected in language use ;
consequently, females and males adopt different communicative styles and use
language differently. This research aims at investigating gender-related differences in
pronunciation performance, specifically in consonants, vowels, intonation, linking,and
stress, Among EFL third year students at M'sila university. In order to accomplish the
research objective, a causal comparative method was adopted. In relevance to this
method, a test was designed to asses EFL female and male students ' performance in
the five features. In addition, it was distributed to a sample of 40 students. They were
divided into two equal groups, mainly 20 females and 20 males, to gather the
required data. The obtained results showed that there is a statistical significant
difference between EFL female and male third year learners in pronunciation
performance at the two levels of significance 0,01 and 0,05. Besides, it has been
revealed that female respondents achieved better results than males in these different
aspects.