Those Gender Have Anything To Do With Language Learning?

Hello Language lovers,

If I was to sectionalize this topic into small bits, it would be; that those geographical location, educational level, cultural background, spiritual beliefs, age, career, financial status and finally Personal interest have anything to do with language learning?  All the above listed, do there really matter when it comes to language learning and the gender involved?

In Africa due to the hardship and continues husling. I use to think that women are more prone to learn a new language than men, because an African girl child is brought up to always multi-task unlike the boy child who is always given preferencial treatment there by lesser task.

And also women in Africa are the ones to embrace new ventures, new ideas and work with them with an open heart. But I think the reverse is the case with women in the Western world, although I think that both the men and women are prone to learning a new language or venture into anything new.

I admit that I stand corrected because presently in my language online academy program the majority of my students are males. This is very ironic to me because I wasn't expecting males to indicate interest more than the females. Also I noticed a trend in their reason for learning a new language.

All the males in my online program don't have an extrinsic motivational reason for learning this new language. They are self driven and I admire their zest for language learning. Their reason is for acquiring sake, for increasing their knowledge data base,  just in case they need it in the future, like may be, they get an opportunity to travel out of the country and they need to know a foreign language. By then, they will be very fluent  and proficient in speaking that needed foreign language.

On the other hand, the ladies in my program all have an intrinsic motivational reason for their language acquisition. One of them is currently preparing for an international exam that if she passes will enable her stay in a foreign country with permit. While the other went to France and couldn't communicate properly so she was restricted and thus because of that, she decided to learn under the tutelage of an expert which is me.

Truly speaking, I can't conclude my findings on these facts I have been able to gather from my VILA institute. So I need more proofs and facts to back up these theory of mine which states that :
 « In Africa men are more likely to learn a new language than women, while in the western both men and women are likely to learn a new language »

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