The majority of quantitative and arguably of qualitative studies of gendered
classroom discourse have produced depressing findings in terms of the quality and
quantity of teacher attention female students attract/receive and the amount of talk
they produce. In the language classroom, considered by many teachers to be
a ‘girls’ world’, findings may be rather different.
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