THE IMPACT OF GENDER AND BILINGUALISM (PERSIAN & KURDISH) UPON THE MANNER OF EXPRESSING OF IRANIAN UNIVERSITY EFL LEARNERS

The aim of conducting the current study is to investigate the effect of gender and bilingualism on direct or indirect ways of men and women request. To do so, and to reach a logical conclusion, the researcher in the present study tried to show the effect of gender and bilingualism role on imperative manner of expressing. Therefore, 120 English as a foreign language learners among master degree students, 30 of them were Persian monolingual male, 30 Persian monolingual female, 30 Persian and Kurdish bilingual male and the last 30 Persian and Kurdish bilingual female were selected. Then, a questionnaire about impact of gender and bilingualism upon manner of learners including 32 questions was prepared in which each question was attributed to a different. The data obtained throughout the study were analyzed via ANOVA variance statistics as well as by using Wilks and Tokei tests. The findings revealed that women pay closer attention to their request manner than what men do. With regard to the obtained results, it can be logically asserted that women act more formal and conservatively in their verbal behavior than what men do in this regard, and this issue can comparatively be attributed to their speech social behavior.