Gender Roles in EFL Textbooks for High School Students
| Autor: | Fang, Yusheng, 方毓聖 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 100 High school students in Taiwan rely heavily on EFL textbooks. If gender stereotypes exist in textbooks, the contents could have influence on males and females with respect to gender recognition. The study aims to explore gender roles in current 18 high school EFL textbooks from 3 leading publishers. The results are analyzed in order to answer four research questions, 1.What is the verbal presentation of male and female roles in textbooks? 2.What are the differences of verbal presentation among different versions? 3.What is the visual presentation in textbooks? 4.What are the differences of visual presentation among different versions? Verbal presentation includes occurrences, occupations, adjectives, topics, and marked words, while visual presentation involves occurrences and occupations. The frequency counts and distributional analysis are used for content analysis. Overall male dominance over females prevails in verbal and visual presentation. In verbal presentation, males outnumber females in every category except marked words. In occupations, males are given more types of jobs than females (111 for males, whereas only 48 for females) and men are given jobs that require professional knowledge and technical skills, professor and astronauts, for example. Both males and females are described with adjectives comprising the traditional stereotypical sex roles, aggressive for males and emotional for females. There are differences of verbal presentation in each version. In the category of occurrences, in version A, males are addressed by occupational status, while females are addressed by their marital status. Adjectives allocated to females are more than those for males in version A (F＞M), whereas males outnumber females in version B (M＞F). In version C, although adjectives for males and females are almost of the same degree (M＝F), females tend to be sensitive and emotional, stereotypical feminine images. In visual presentation, the results match previous researches that occupations for males exceed those for females both in quantity and quality and both genders are allocated to stereotypical jobs. For visual presentation in each version, females are most portrayed in version C, but least portrayed in version A, with women busy cleaning the house while men sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper. In terms of occupations, males are most portrayed in version B, but least portrayed in version A, in which both genders are given stereotypical jobs and females are ignored in the field of sports. |
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