Gender Differences in Participation in Group Discussions in Freshman English Classes at Addis Ababa University
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1996-06
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The study aimed to find gender differences in verbal participation in discussion groups in
Freshman English classes at Addis Ababa University. It also aimed to find differences in
assertiveness between male and female students and correlations between assertiveness and
verbal participation. Statistical analysis of interactional turns in the videotapes of
discussions of majority- female, majority-male and halt'male-half female groups showed
no gender differences. Similarly no significant statistical differences between male
assertiveness and female assertiveness were found. Also correlations between assertiveness
and verbal activity were found to be generally weak.
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Gender Differences in Participation