| In the process of language learning, especially English, there is a connection between students’ performances and their achievements. By examining the achievements, we can identify the students’ difficulties and qualities in learning languages. The differences in students’ achievements in English may be caused by gender differences. There was a widely-known assumption that females were better than males in language learning. According to Clark & Trafford (1996), females are better than males in learning French and Spanish. In addition, Place (1997) argued that females performed better in French and German. These are some studies that have been conducted related to foreign languages other than English. The assumption was also supported by an article from Scientific American website written by Swaminathan (2008), which showed that females learned a language more completely than males. Brain researchers argued that there was a greater activity in females’ brain particularly in language encoding, which explains why females are better in language learning. |