Language development differences based on gender
March 8, 2008
From http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2008/03/07/gender-differences-in-language/ the article talks about biological differences being responsible for different ways girls and boys learn language. This could mean that teachers could plan there lessons accordingly in their teaching styles. It may be difficult to employ two different approaches for teaching both the boys and the girls, but if this is the discovery that could help teachers help students learn, then this means so very much for the future of teachers—and learners.
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March 9th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Actually, I think you don’t need two different lessons.
What you need to do is make sure that the boys hear/see it.
The main finding of the piece was that accurate performance was correlated in language area activatio in girls but in sensory activation in boys. The same lesson, and the same performance accuracy, but ONLY if the different areas of the brain was engaged. Language for girls, and sensory for boys.