Gender Differences and its Impact on Students'Performance: A Socio-Linguistic Analysis

The objective of this paper is to look at the sociolinguistic factors that mostly affect students' performance due to gender differences. For this purpose, we took a sample of 150 students studying at secondary schools in Vehari city. Among these students, 75 were girls and 75 were boys.We developed a questionnaire to record the views of teachers on this issue. The author personally collected data through questionnaires. We analysed students' performance on gender based differences regarding four skills listening, speaking, reading and writing in curricular and co- curricular activities and then compare the results. The finding of our study is that girls performed better than boys in curricular and co-curricular activities. The