Gender representation in EFL materials. An analysis of English textbooks of Iranion high schools.

Autor/inn/en	Bahman, Masoumeh; Rahimi, Ali
Titel	Gender representation in EFL materials. An analysis of English textbooks of Iranion high schools.
Quelle	In: Procedia : social and behavioral sciences, (2010) 9, S. 273-277 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen; Literaturangaben S. 277
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1877-0428
DOI	10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.12.149
Schlagwörter	Geschlechterstereotyp; Schulbuch; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Englisch; Iran
Abstract	The present study was an attempt to examine different areas of gender-bias in representation of women and men in 3 volumes of English textbooks taught in the high schools of Iran.Chi-squares were performed to find the frequency of names, nouns, pronouns and adjectives attributed to women and men. Also, chi-square was carried out to investigate whether women and men had more or less equal first-place occurrences in instructions, exercises and sentences. Furthermore, the other areas which were investigated were: 1. reading passages to find whether women and men appeared more or less equally or not, 2. male-generics and 3. animals. The findings revealed that the manifestation of women and men in these textbooks was not fair. In other words, the presence of men was more highlighted than that of women regarding names, nouns, pronouns and adjectives attributed to them. In regard to firstness, also, male-attributed terms came first more frequently than those of females. In reading passages, male characters appeared more frequently than female characters. Moreover, these textbooks contained many male-generics in which women were almost invisible. Also, sexism was detected in regard to animal representations.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2022/1