Comments on: Boys' brains and girls' brains and language learning http://languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/07/boys-brains-and-girls-brains-and-language-learning/ It's Not Your 8th grade Language Lab Anymore! Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:48:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Natasha http://languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/07/boys-brains-and-girls-brains-and-language-learning/#comment-776 Natasha Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:37:26 +0000 http://www.languagelabunleashed.org/2008/03/07/boys-brains-and-girls-brains-and-language-learning/#comment-776 Interesting to think about language processing differences between "boys and girls". I don't see evidence in this article that the differences are biological in nature as claimed in the first sentence (neither do I see evidence against it). I found the comment that "areas of the brain associated with language work harder in girls than in boys during language tasks" interesting in terms of the language used in the sentence. "Works harder" sounds like it's trickier for girls. If someone was saying that boys tend to do better on standardized math testing, would they say their brains have to "work harder"? I doubt it. I also haven't heard too many people suggesting we change our math tests to cater to women's (as a generalized group) math strengths. Interesting to think about language processing differences between “boys and girls”. I don’t see evidence in this article that the differences are biological in nature as claimed in the first sentence (neither do I see evidence against it).

I found the comment that “areas of the brain associated with language work harder in girls than in boys during language tasks” interesting in terms of the language used in the sentence. “Works harder” sounds like it’s trickier for girls. If someone was saying that boys tend to do better on standardized math testing, would they say their brains have to “work harder”? I doubt it. I also haven’t heard too many people suggesting we change our math tests to cater to women’s (as a generalized group) math strengths.

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