Vol. 15, No. 1, June - December 2023

Gender is an important language learning variable. The purpose of this study was thus to examine the influence of gender on the formation of language learning attitudes among college students. Hence, the study made use of Mixed Methods Research (MMR). In specific, the design was an explanatory sequential mixed method involving formulation of questions, data collection, data analysis, interpretation, and validation. The respondents of this study were the students of Kwara State College of Education (Technical) Lafiagi, a technical-based college situated in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State of Nigeria. A sample of 265 students were taken for the administration of the questionnaire. In the same vein, the study collected a sample of 27 students for the interview protocol session being approximately 10% of the sample population used for the quantitative phase of data collection. The study made use of an adopted questionnaire; Attitude towards Language (ATol) scale as used by Eshghinejad (2016) based on Baker's (1992) LLA Model. It was found, among others that there was no significant difference in the attitudes of both male and female students towards learning of English language since the p-value (=0.641) was greater than 0.05. That is, the students' attitudes towards learning English were same and positive. Hence, in the context of this study, gender had no overtly observed influence on the college students' attitudes towards English language. In other words, attitude appeared to be gender-general rather than being genderspecific. Therefore, both the male and female students had the same attitudes towards learning English. Also, the study revealed that as gender did not have any significant influence on the overall attitude, there was no significant difference in the attitudes of both male and female college students at the level of each of the components of language learning attitudes. Based on this, it can be argued that while attitudes are important learning variable in language learning, gender had effect on the attitude formation.