Gender differences in perceiving FL culture teaching : the case of Egyptian EFL pre-service teachers

Abstract EN

The current study examined the importance of teaching FL culture in the Egyptian FL context.

it investigated whether gender is statistically a significant contributor to the Egyptian EFL pre-service teachers’ perception of FL culture instruction.

it discussed how the Egyptian EFL male and female pre-service teachers might vary in their perception of teaching FL culture to the Egyptian EFL learners.

as for the participants, one hundred Egyptian EFL pre-service teachers participated in the present study.

they were enrolled at the faculty of education at two Egyptian universities : Matrouh university and October 6 university.

they were divided into two groups with 50 participants each based on gender.

data were collected through a 20-item questionnaire that was divided into four sections.

data were analyzed according to the descriptive statistics and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).

findings indicated that gender significantly contributed to the perception of Egyptian EFL pre-service of FL culture instruction.