A Study Of Gender Differences In Chinese Learning Concepts For Primary Level Students

In recent years,the focus in the study of second language is gradually changing from"how to teach”to "how to learn" a growing number of studies have shown that learners play an important role for language learning,thus to investigate the learners' personal factors have important meaning.Based on the primary level students,this article is going to explore the belief about language from the six dimension including foreign language aptitude,difficulty of language learning,the nature of language learning,learning and communication strategies,motivations and teaching to studied.On the concept of language aptitude,more than half of the learners believe that identity of linguistics is existed and they can learn Chinese well,learners agreed with the importance affection of age on the role of language learning.On the different with gender,boys are more agree with language learning ability,girls more agree with age's influence on language learning;On the concept of language learning difficult,most learners believe that Chinese is a difficult or particularly difficult language,listening or speaking or reading or writing of Chinese are all not simple.But their estimate of the learning time is more optimistic.Girls'positioning for Chinese difficulty is higher than boys but with less learning time,and girls are better than boys in reading and writing.On the concept of language learning nature,most students are inclined to vocabulary learning,the vast majority of learners agree that learning Chinese in China is better but the identity of the Chinese culture is not so high.In different with boys,girls think vovabulary is important in Chinese learning,and more approve the culture's impact in Chinese learning.On the concept of language learning and communication,most learners agreed to repeat and practice and with high tolerance for mistakes.In different with boys,girls' error tolerance is higher but is more contradiction in communicationOn the concept of learning motivation,most learners is comprehensive motivation.No obvious difference between boys and girls,but boys has a bit tend on instrumental motivation;On the concept of teachers' ideas,most students get the positive influence from their Chinese teacher,Girls is easily affected by the teacher in language learning.According to the characteristics of the male learners' learning,in the aspect of classroom teaching content,guiding boys to practice vocabulary memory training,basic grammar exercises,reading induction training,and do a lot of copying in writing.For girls,Use more vocabulary extensions exercises,episodic practice of grammar,expanded reading,and more independently in writing.In Chinese classroom Setting,teacher should use more Chinese to establishment the Chinese classroom,teaching methods can be diversification,the classroom activities design can be flexible and varied.In the aspect of Chinese homework,men do more structured,semi-structured exercises,girls do more semi-structured exercises,men and women can discuss different topics in oral English.