The Study of the Difference between Gender and English Learning Achievement-A Case Study of Sixth-Graders in Pingtung County

性別與英語學習成就之研究－以屏東縣小六學童為例

10.7067/JMHIT.200709.0197

黎瓊麗(Chiung-Li Li)；Sandy Haggard；林玫妙(Mei-Miao Lin)

性別 ； 英語學習成就 ； gender ； English learning achievement

美和技術學院學報

26卷2期（2007 / 09 / 01）

197 - 217

英文

國小英語教學實施多年以來，已引起許多學者專家的探討，性別在學校裏是極易形成區別的特性，許多研究亦指出男女生在學習上具有差異，因此，性別究竟會不會造成英語學習成就上之差異值得關心，本研究以屏東縣國小六年級學生為研究對象，研究者以台南市國民小學英語聽力與閱讀理解電腦化評量題庫中的乙卷為研究工具，並調查受試者之性別，資料蒐集後以SPSS進行統計分析，本研究發現男女生在英語學習成就上有明顯差異，女生顯著地高於男生。研究並根據研究結果提出建議，以提供相關人士之參考，進一步期許台灣之國小英語教學更具成效。

Since English education in elementary schools was implemented in Taiwan in 2001, many researchers are interested in investigating its effectiveness in English teaching in elementary schools. Gender is a distinctive characteristic in school; some studies have shown that males and females differ in how they learn. Therefore, it is worthy studying whether gender is a factor causing the difference between females and males in English learning achievements. The study selected sixth-graders in Pingtung County as subjects, and chose English Listening and Reading Comprehension Test B as the instrument. When the participants took the English test, they needed to identify their gender. After the researchers collected the data and analyzed the data by the software of SPSS, the researchers found that there is a significant difference between males and females in English learning achievement. The result showed that females scored better than males in English achievement. The researchers offer some suggestions according to the results and give some implications for future studies.

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