Search results for: Meliza Evette

This research study explores gender-based language, in this case women's language, and the classroom. The study specifically examines examples of women's language and how this language affects student response in the classroom. The participants were 20 students at an academic magnet school in a metropolitan area in the southeastern United States and their teacher. Five variables have been identified as characteristic of women's language--politeness, gestures, intonation, praise/saving face for others, and tag questions--and were used to evaluate the language of a female teacher in an Algebra II classroom.