Teenagers and Language use in Communication Case Study of 1st year English Language Students in BELHADJ Bouchaib University-Ain Temouchent

Abstract

It seems that there is a relation between gender and communication, gender is a social construction and communication is a way to connect with each other. One of them males or females use different communication styles, focusing on verbal or non verbal communication and this known as gender communication. The aim of this study is to show the differences between male and female teens in using language in their communication such as politeness, topic change, turn taking, minimal responds … etc. this study tends to be a sociolinguistic investigation into the way and style of teenagers use language in communication. In this study thirty participants were asked to answer a questionnaire to try to deduce the different styles of using language between different genders. The data was collected using survey and written form of questionnaire and observation in order to test the hypothesis. Both of them had been administrated to the first year English language students at Belhadj Bouchaib University of Ain Temouchent and they are supposed to representAin Temouchent’s educated teens population. According to the research work, the results have confirmed that participants differ in using language, females are politer, emotional, and indirect in their communication while males are less polite and more direct, hide their emotions while they are communicating with others. Females tend to use more body language than males do, females use more vocabulary than males do