大学生英语自主学习能力的性别差异——基于某高校非英语专业学生的调查

Gender Differences in College Students’English Autonomous Learning Ability--Based on a Survey of Non-English Majors in a University

自上世纪中叶以来,国内外许多学者就学生的自主学习能力进行了大量的研究,成果多聚焦于思维习惯、社会背景以及接受教育的程度等。性别是出现于同种个体间的最基本的差异,早在20世纪60年代,男女在语言的学习上体现出的性别差异就引起了心理学家、社会学家以及语言学家的广泛关注,其中大部分研究结果显示,性别差异在学生语言学习上会产生一定的影响。以河北省某高校非英语专业学生为案例,通过问卷法和访谈法获取相关信息,并对收集到的数据进行了检验和分析,结果显示当代大学生在英语自主学习能力上体现出了一定程度的性别差异。

Since the middle of the last century,many scholars at home and abroad have conducted a lot of research on students’autonomous learning ability,the results have mostly focused on thinking habits,social background and education level.Gender is the most basic difference among the same kind of individuals.As early as the 1960 s,the gender differences in language learning between male and female has aroused widespread concern of psychologists,sociologists and linguists.Most of the research results show that gender differences have a certain impact on students’language learning.A non-English Major of a university in Hebei Province was taken as a case,obtains relevant information through questionnaire and interview methods,examines and analyzes the collected data.The results show that contemporary college students have a certain degree of gender differences in English autonomous learning ability.