An Exploration of Gender Differences on EFL Students’ English Learning Satisfaction by Technology University Students
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The purpose of this study is to explore whether the learning satisfaction of teachers’ instruction and course content were varied according to gender diversities. Based on this notion, this study conducts a questionnaire survey with 232 participants, including 142 males and 90 females from seven classes as the study samples. The study employed descriptive statistics, and ANOVA etc.to perform analysis, and obtained the following conclusions; the EFL technology university students reported higher satisfaction with teachers’ instruction than with the satisfaction of the teachers’ course content, and male students reported higher satisfaction with the overall English learning satisfaction than their counterparts. Furthermore, it is likely that male students are more satisfied than female students in the English learning class.
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