Gender differences in Iranian and native EFL text books: A case of cross-textual analysis of High school English Language Book One and New Interchange Intro
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 7
Abstract
This research intends to analyze the relationship between language and sex as represented in Iranian High School English Language Book 1. It tries to find out, among other things, the relative amount of female pronouns and proper nouns to that of males, the category of word classes and the job distribution used for each sex, and the type of verbs, adjectives utilized for any of the two sexes. The same procedure is conducted with the original English book at the same level which is identified as New New Interchange Intro. Doing so, data gathered to see if there is a bias towards presenting sex (male and female) in both text books. This study is based on the reviewing, analyzing, and classifying the two mentioned text books. One table was provided based on the verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and number of pronouns used for the two sexes of male and female. Then, both regarded text books are reviewed carefully unit by unit on the selected parts. Findings show that there is a bias or a big difference for presenting different sexes in both Iranian high school English language book 1 and the New Interchange Intro as an original English book. And still there is a difference between male and female genders in status, power, social identity, and etc.
Authors and Affiliations
Esmail Zare-Behtash| Associate Professor of English, Chabahar Maritime University, Saieed Moslemi Nezhad*| M.A Student of TEFL at University of Sistan & Baluchestan
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