There is no innate difference in the ability of girls and boys to master a foreign language; but in the United States, there is now a big gender gap in motivation. In other words: the biggest differences between girls and boys are not in what they can do but in what they want to do. In my visits to more than 460 schools over the past 22 years, I have learned a great deal about how to boost boys’ motivation in modern foreign languages as well as in English literature and creative writing, hi...
