Boys in Norway are making gains reading English as a second language and even outperforming girls at age 10 and 13. The unexpected results might be explained by online gaming and experiences with technologies such as YouTube – with English being the language of the internet.

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1. No cap?

2. My experience as a teacher is that a girl who reads a Colleen Hoover book a week, runs circles around any Fortnite gaming boy.

3. Norwegian gen z and alpha English is WAAAAAAAY worse than millenial and gen x

4. And they speak with a much more American accent

5. > The national tests for English and Norwegian were for 10-year-olds born between 1997 and 2008; and for those aged 13 born between 1991 and 2002. The high-stakes tests were for 15-year-olds born from 1991 to 2000.

   Then results from national tests are not correct due to an error in assumptions/ model.

   I dont know if they managed to correct the data and if the corrected data is significantly different from the previous one.

6. As one who has committed a masters in extramural language acquisition, I am not surprised. The girls may be better at following lessons and more dilligent in doing their homework, but all meaningful interaction with a second/foreign language will lead to language learning. The majority of boys spend more time with games and movies/tv-series than what the majority of girls do.

7. After getting spawn camped, you can tell the other guy the unscrupulous things you did with his mother last night in Norsk. That would just be uncivilized.

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