IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibn/eltjnl/v5y2012i2p134.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Gender Bias in the Iranian High School EFL Textbooks

Author

Listed:
  • Mohadeseh Amini
  • Parviz Birjandi

Abstract

Gender bias is unfortunately still present in many societies especially the developing countries. Such prejudice is in most cases in favor of males and against females. While females nowadays comprise a great majority of the work force all around the world, they are still being looked upon as the weaker sex associated with stereotypical roles as stay-at-home mothers whose main task is to breed children, wash the dishes, etc. Such prejudice if present in a society gets manifested in its EFL/ ESL materials. The main purpose of the present study is to examine the extent and types of gender bias in two of the Iranian mostly used EFL textbooks at the high school level. Sexism will be investigated in five categories of visibility, firstness, generic masculine constructions, sex-linked occupations and activities. The findings are expected to raise awareness regarding sexist practices in EFL material developers, teachers and learners.

Suggested Citation

  • Mohadeseh Amini & Parviz Birjandi, 2012. "Gender Bias in the Iranian High School EFL Textbooks," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 5(2), pages 134-134, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:5:y:2012:i:2:p:134
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt/article/download/14570/9935
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/elt/article/view/14570
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:5:y:2012:i:2:p:134. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Canadian Center of Science and Education (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.