Deborah Tannen

How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently by Deborah Tannen
In Deborah Tannen’s essay How male and female students use language differently explained’ she describes the difference in the way men and women communicate in class. Ms. Tannen has years of experience in the classroom, and has inked several books on language. Deborah Tannen can be considered and specialist on this subject. In this essay she tries to convey the message to her readers that women and men communicate in differently inside the classroom by sharing her experience during an experiment that she had conducted in her own class. I believe in the message she is arguing. Deborah Tannen is effective in convincing the readers that men and women do communicate differently. She was able to paint a picture to me that described how the men usually respond more to arguments, debates, aggression and verbal challenges. Tannen was also effective in depicting how women tend to be more responsive to open ended questions that are unopposed and valued.
I believe the lack of statistics and backed up facts would make it hard for people not aquatinted with this subject to understand and therefore making them skeptical of this experiment and essay.
There is also the fact that Tannen’s classroom experiment was conducted with out the knowledge her students. This piece of information could be considered unethical to some readers and there fore be very off putting on personal beliefs. In my belief there was no damage done to those that unknowingly participated in this experiement, but they should have been aware of the study they were participating