摘要：This paper focuses on an applied linguistics study of some
factors such as: gender, attitude, motivation, and anxiety in second language
learning. These are also responsible for individual differences in learning a
second (L2). In social psychology, it is a widely accepted fact that learner’s
individual differences have significant impact on the learner’s overall L2
performance. That is why the major focus of the recent research in social
psychology has been on various social psychological variables like, attitude,
motivation, age, aptitude, anxiety, intelligence etc, and their impact on Second
Language Acquisition (SLA).Gardner (1985) proposes that second language
acquisition is ‘truly a socio-psychological phenomenon. It is concerned with the
development of communication skills between an individual and members of another
cultural community. For this study 408 students were taken as samples (270 boys
and 138grils) from five engineering colleges in and around Chennai, India. As
result I found that female students have higher/positive motivations and
attitudes towards learning English as a second language than male students.
Moreover, female students have less language anxiety than male students.
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