REPRESENTATION OF GENDER IN EFL TEXTBOOKS FOR HIGH SCHOOLS: A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Author (s) : Dr. V.L.Sathya & A. Karthiga, Logapriya

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Abstract :
The aim of this study is to analyze EFL textbooks for high schools in Turkey in terms of gender representation. In order to find out how males and females are represented in these textbooks through language, a linguistic investigation is made on lexical items. Gender-biased use of lexical items and their frequencies are determined. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used in this investigation. Nouns, verbs and adjectives collocating with the male and female names and with the third person singular masculine and feminine pronouns are analyzed. In the analysis of verbs, Halliday’s (1994) taxonomy of verbs is taken as the basis of categorization. The frequencies of male and female names and pronouns (he and she) are also compared to each other to find out whether there is a gender-balanced distribution. Preliminary findings indicate that words collocating with male and female names differ and there is a slight difference between the collocates of the third person singular masculine and feminine pronouns.

Keywords : determined, Preliminary, masculine, feminine

Conference Date : 17/09/2021

Pages : 249

Paper ID : IESMDT247