Gender differences in reading comprehension essay
Abstract. This study examined the effects of gender and different types of reading media on students' reading comprehension. Forty students were asked to read four. Gender differences in language use are mainly investigated in the areas of spelling, reading comprehension and writing performance. Halpern and LaMay, 2000. Verbal fluency can be divided into single-letter fluency, i.e. producing as many words as possible starting with a given letter, and two-category fluency, i.e. producing as many words as possible starting with a given letter. Reading habits play an active role in promoting students' reading skills and preparing students to participate in modern society. Gender differences regarding students' habits in reading media use, the amount of time spent on leisure reading, and the frequency of school-related reading and leisure reading were examined. This study aims to investigate gender differences in text type-specific reading competencies via readers' gender-specific reading preferences. Women were expected to read more often because of their preference for entertainment, while men were expected to read more often because of their preference for information and information. We,