Trainer: Ekaterina Spiridonova (Russia)

“Born  in 22.03.1985, Graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University, The Department of Psychology (2003-08). Previous project on International Research school: Comparative Linguistics (IRS’08); Nonverbal Communication”.

Asistent trainer: Marzieh A. Farid 

Marzieh A. Farid born 16th April 1982. Interested in Persian literature, Linguistics, Teaching, and Psychological aspects of literature. Graduated from Allameh University, Tehran, Iran, Fall 2009, in Persian Literature, (M. A. Thesis Title: Metaphor in Everyday Language) and Electronics engineering, Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran, Fall 2007.
Working Experiences are teacher, research supervisor, workshop organizer and counselor on complementary educational materials in Rah-e-Roshd educational institution and January 2010 to march 2010 head of art and design department of annual exhibition of advancements in science and research , Farzanegan High school (institution for talented students).

 Title of the Project: Gender Linguistics.

 Our main goal will be to find out the gender differences of speech but anlalysing written stories composed in a foreign language (in English).

One can foresee that we will by all means come across the problem of unequal language level. Though a simple English test will not solve the problem totally but it can level the differences in general.

The tasks of the project are:

1. To design an English test, which will show the respondents’ level of English?

2. To form a homogeneous respondent group by the criteria of gender, native language, education and knowledge of English;

3. To collect the essays;

4. To process the collected data using the method of content analysis.

5. To make the final presentation of the work explaining the results and the procedure.

The main hypothesis of the research will be: There will be more adjectives and nouns in the female essays, and more verbs and adverbs in the male ones.

Last year we got the tendency proving this hypothesis for native language speech; this year we will try to check whether it is true for a foreign language speech. If we get the same tendency it will mean that the parts-of-speech criterion is gender conditioned.

Requirements: Spoken English level – Upper Intermediate.