Article published in:
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied LinguisticsVol. 33:1 (2020) ► pp. 171–201
Boys like games and girls like movies
Age and gender differences in out-of-school contact with English
Carmen Muñoz | University of Barcelona
In many contexts learners are enriching their limited contact with the foreign language in the
classroom with unlimited contact outside the classroom thanks to the easy and immediate availability of the
Internet and digital media. This study aimed to document the characteristics of the contact with English that a large sample of
Catalan-Spanish learners have outside the classroom, to explore possible age- and gender-related differences, and to examine the
association between out-of-school contact and classroom grades. The responses to a survey showed the type of activities in which
young and old adolescents and young adults engage. The analyses showed differences between the three age groups, as well as large
differences in the choices of males and females. The analysis of the association between respondents’ English-classroom grades and
the different activities showed that reading had the highest positive correlation, followed by watching audiovisual material with
L2 subtitles.
Keywords: out of school exposure, input, incidental leaerning, gender, age, EFL
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background
- 2.1Before school instruction
- 2.2School learners
- 2.3Young adults
- 3.The current study
- 3.1Method
- 3.1.1Participants
- 3.1.2The survey
- 3.2Analyses and results
- 3.3Discussion
- 3.4Conclusions and limitations
- 3.1Method
- Acknowledgements
-
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Published online: 21 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.18042.mun
https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.18042.mun
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