Gender Differences in Academic Performance of English

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine whether there is any gender difference in students’ Academic Performance in English of sixth year students at Artsayyaphoom secondary school, Pieng district Sayaboury province. The participants of this study were the sample group of this study was 79 female (entire female) and 79 male. Thus, the instrument of this study was the questionnaire used to elicit the students’ motivation in English learning and first semester students’ scores. The researcher used SPSS program to calculate the mean, S.D and percentage. The result showed that female students at Artsayyaphoom Secondary school have motivation in English learning rather than male students (the mean of male students’ motivation was 3.7873 with the S.d 1.02875 and the mean of female students’ motivation in English learning was 4.4706 with S.D 1.14645). Moreover, it also significantly differences due to the analysis revealed a mean (x) of male students’ English for first semester scores was 6.3671 and Standard Deviation (SD) of 1.24218 while the female students’ English for first semester scores was 7.9494 and Standard Deviation (SD) of 1.18645. Therefore, the results indicated that there was significant differences exist between genders on academic performance in Artsayyaphoom Secondary school, Pieng district, Sayaboury province.