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Gender in the EFL classroom
Jane Sunderland works in teacher training at the Institute for English Language Education, Lancaster University. She is also working for a PhD on the topic of The Social Construction and Implications for Foreign Language Acquisition.
The following article is an overview of issue and research in three areas in which gender manifetst itself in the EFL classroom: the English language, materials (grammars, textbooks, dictionaries, and teacher's guides), and processes (learning styles and strategies, and teacher-learner and learner-learner interaction). The article also briefly examines some implications of gender in materials and classroom interaction for language acquisition.