A Study of Gender Differences in English Learning Strategies of Middle School Students

摘要

This paper takes Oxford Classification Standard of Learning Strategy，through questionnaire survey and interviews，conducts a study of gender differences of middle school students in memory strategy，cognitive strategy，compensation strategy，meta-cognitive strategy，emotion strategy，social communication strategy. The results show the females use all the strategies more frequently than males except in social communication strategy，especially memory strategy，and that there are differences in the use of other strategies，but not so remarkable. Based on this，the paper proposes measures to improve English teaching such as developing personalized English learning strategy，English learning strategy diagnosis and training and respecting gender differences to promote full development of learning strategies and so on.