gender and 2nd language learning

[amy sheldon]

Hello,
Livia Polanyi has an article or book chapter titled "Language learning 
abroad" about the effects of sexual harassment on achievement scores of 
U. S.  females (compared to males) who study outside of the U.S. during 
college. It's not directly about motivation but it's related. It's 
primarily about dissimilar  opportunities for using the language on 
their study abroad, for females and males who have equivalent 
predeparture achievement test scores. Their different achievement test 
scores when they returned to the U.S. are accounted for by their 
different experiences using language in the gendered conversational 
contexts they find themselves in abroad.
Amy Sheldon

On Wednesday, March 1, 2006, at 08:01  AM, fuman-fayfay wrote:

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> laguage learning., esp. something about student's motivation and 
> gender differences, thanks a lot!
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