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Publication details [#65231]

Reiterer, Susanne Maria and Barbara Verena Wucherer. 2018. Language is a girlie thing, isn't it? A psycholinguistic exploration of the L2 gender gap. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 21 (1) : 118–134.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language proficiency | gender | L2-acquisition | language | psycholinguistics

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This inquiry employed linguistic and psychological scales to explore gender contrasts in late learners' s foreign language (L2) skills. It states that foreign language teaching should adapt more to gender contrasts and reckon with effects of personality and motivation contrasts.