gender and language TEACHING MATERIAL TEACHING AIDS CLASSROOM GENDER LANGUAGE MATERIALS LEARNING SUDERLAND STREAMLINE SERIES DEPARTURE SERIES MALE VS FEMALE CHARACTER LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF TEXT BOOK

2. LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS

3. SUNDELAND
•IN 1970S, 1980S AND EARLY 1990S THERE WAS AN ABUNDANCE
OF STUDIES IN THE AREA OF LANGUAGE TEACHING TEXTBOOKS
•RELATED TO L1 ENGLISH TEACHING
•RELATED TO MODERN LANGUAGES AS SECOND AND FOREIGN
LANGUAGE
•MAJORITY OF THE STUDIES FOCUS ON TEXTBOOK FOR TEACHING
OF ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE

4. ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERS IN TEXTBOOKS
FEMALE CHARACTER
•POORLY REPRESENTED
•LESS FEMALE CHARACTER
•MORE STEREOTYPICAL ROLES
( NURSE,
HOUSEWIFE,SECRETERY)
MALE CHARACTER
•OVER REPRESENTED
•MORE MALE CHARCTER
•MORE POWERFUL
OCCUPATIONAL ROLE ( BANK
MANAGER,SCHOOL
PRINCIPAL,DOCTOR)

5. HELLINGERE’S ANALYSIS OF THREE ELT
BOOKS
•80% SPEAKERS WERE MEN
•WOMEN TOOK PART IN CHALLENGING ACTIVITIES
•MEN IN OCCUPATIONS AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES
•WOMEN’S ROLE IS LESS POWERFUL

6. DICTIONARY OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
•MEN APPEARED IN LIIUSTRATIONS MORE OFTEN THAN WOMEN
•PRESTIGIOUS JOBS FOR MEN
•LOW STATUS JOBS FOR WOMEN

7. LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF TEXTBOOK
•INTEREST LESS IN MIXED GENDER CONVERSATIONS
•INTRODUCE COMMON TOPICS TO KEEP COMMUNICATION OPEN
•PARTICIPATE LESS IN CONVERSATIONS
•APOLOGIZE MORE OFTEN
•AGREE MORE WITH OTHERS

8. ANALYSIS OF TEXTS FOR TEACHING GREEK
AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE
•WOMEN IS ASKING ABOUT INFORMATION
•MAKING REQUESTS
•MEN TO BE GIVING INFORMATION
•PERFORMING DIRECTIVES

9. DEPARTURE SERIES 1978
•MALE CHARACTERS IN THE TEXT IS CRASHING HIS CAR
•DISTRACTED BY FEMALE CHARACTER IN MINI SKIRT

10. STREAM LINE SERIES
•DESPITE SEXISM IT IS SUCCESS FOR BOTH MALE AND FEMALE
•E.G ORAL FLUENCY
•GENDER BAIS HAVE NOT IMPACT IN LEARNING
•SHAPING LEARNERS SOCIAL ATTITUDE

11. WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE RESPONSES TO PERCEIVED SEXISM IN
LANGUAGE MATERIALS ON THE PART OF TEACHERS AND EDUCATION
POLICY – MAKERS?
•BIAS ON PART OF TEACHER AND POLICY MAKERS INCLUDE EXPLICIT DISCUSSION
•GUIDELINES AGAINST GENDER STEREOTYPING
•REVERSAL OF STEREOTYPES IN ORDER TO ILLUSTRATE SEXISM
•ACTIVITIES THAT ENABLES THE STUDENTS TO THINK CRITICAL
•FOCUS SHOULD BE NOT ONLY GENDER AWARENESS IN RELATION TO CLASS SUBJECT OR
MATERIALS BUT ON INTERACTIONS AMONG THESE AND THE WHOLE RANGE OF
DISCOURSE

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