tailieunhanh - Language and gender: Differences in making complaints between males and females

Recognizing the significant difference amongst males’ and females’ usage of languages greatly contributes to the appropriate selection of teaching and learning approaches. To be more specific, in this paper, the aspects of making complaints are carefully examined under some relevant theories and observations, which leads to some implications in teaching and learning a particular functional section of languages: making complaints. | TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC SƯ PHẠM TP HỒ CHÍ MINH TẠP CHÍ KHOA HỌC HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION JOURNAL OF SCIENCE KHOA HỌC GIÁO DỤC EDUCATION SCIENCE ISSN: 1859-3100 Tập 16, Số 1 (2019): 48-56 Vol. 16, No. 1 (2019): 48-56 Email: tapchikhoahoc@; Website: LANGUAGE AND GENDER: DIFFERENCES IN MAKING COMPLAINTS BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES Le Dinh Tung Ho Chi Minh City University of Education Corresponding author: Email: le dinh tungld@ Received: 25/12/2018; Revised: 04/01/2019; Accepted: 17/01/2019 ABSTRACT Recognizing the significant difference amongst males’ and females’ usage of languages greatly contributes to the appropriate selection of teaching and learning approaches. To be more specific, in this paper, the aspects of making complaints are carefully examined under some relevant theories and observations, which leads to some implications in teaching and learning a particular functional section of languages: making complaints. Keywords: complaints, gender, language, communicative language teaching (CLT). 1. Introduction Long time ago, females would be considered to be inferior in the community, especially in the monarchy. Later on, although feminist movement has gone through a lot of challenges since the late 18th century, it has gained plenty of achievements and global changes in societies. Bell Hook (2000) stated that “Feminism is a struggle against sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels, as well as a commitment to reorganizing society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion and material desires” Some people would think that feminism is just about basic human rights and that it's just a modern social movement. The truth is that the feminist movement is neither modern nor social in its origin, but the religious elements which are rarely .