男生英语学不好全怪班里女生多？-英语点津

Boys' English grades are up to a tenth worse when high numbers of girls are in the class with them, though girls' grades are unaffected. 研究发现，当班上女生人数较多时，男生的英语成绩要下降10%，而女生们的成绩则不受影响。

Boys do worse in English when there are girls in their class, researchers will say today, contradicting the widely held belief that girls are always a good influence on boys in school. 研究人员今天称，当班上女生人数较多时，男生的英语就会学得较差。而人们以往普遍认为，在学校中，女生对男生总是有积极影响。

Boys do best with "as few girls as possible" in English lessons at primary and secondary school, Steven Proud, a research student at Bristol University, will tell the Royal Economic Society's conference. 布里斯托大学的研究生Steven Proud将在皇家经济学会的回忆上宣布：小学与初中的英语课上，女生越少，男生成绩越好。

But when it comes to maths and science, both boys and girls at primary school achieve up to a tenth of a grade more when there is a high proportion of girls in the class, Proud found. 然而Steven Proud同时发现在数学与科学学科上，女生人数多对男女生都有积极影响——成绩提高10%。

Proud tracked boys' and girls' test results at the ages of seven, 11, 14 and 16 in 16,000 schools in England between 2002 and 2004 for his PhD. 在2002年至2004年间，Proud为了完成博士研究课题，跟踪查询了英格兰16000所学校中7岁、11岁、14岁、16岁的男女生测试成绩。

Boys consistently perform up to a tenth of a grade worse when they study English with high numbers of girls as opposed to few or no girls, Proud found. Pround发现，相比于班上没有或者很少女生之时，当班上女生人数较多时，男生的英语成绩总是会下降10%。

The more girls there are in an English class, the worse boys perform. This is particularly the case in primary schools, he discovered. 特别是在小学，女生越多，男生的英语就学得越差。

Girls, who outperform boys in English at every stage at school, are unaffected by the number of boys in their English classes.在学校的各个阶段英语表现都要强过男生的女生英语成绩则不受男生人数影响。

He said: "The results imply that boys would benefit at all ages from being taught English with as small a proportion of girls as possible. In maths and science, the results tend to imply that both boys and girls benefit from having more girls in the classroom. A mix of the genders in both science and maths is optimal." Proud称：“研究结果表明了，如果能降低英语课上女生人数比例，所有年龄组男生的英语成绩都将受益。在数学和科学学科上，研究结果表明女生多对班级中的男女生都有好处。数学与科学学科中，性别混合是最优化的选择。”

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