ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026): ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives

Probing the Gender Aperture: Exploring Gender Differences in Language Learning

Submitted
17 April 2026
Published
2026-06-30

Abstract

This paper endeavours to abstain from normal discrimination among gender; rather, attempts to become aware and detect the reason behind successful outcome of language outcome between gender. This research focuses on the gender and their knowledge, proficiency and utility of language; additionally, this paper prefers the reason why a particular gender is overwhelming and surpassing the other gender in language learning. There have been so many researches discussing the gender differences through anthropology, but when considering language, phonology, lexicon students are taken into account for determining the better performer among the gender. Pondering the previous studies and various research papers have been submitted, the researcher takes the side of female; that substantially female are good at learning a secondary language and they carry out pronunciation, accent and vocabulary one step ahead and more acceptable than male. This research paper is going to bring some considering points with evidence to prove the researcher’s view and stand on gender vent in learning a secondary language. Further, this paper undertakes to perceive the facts which makes female to learn well- accelerated with perfection than male.

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