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Gender and Culture Analysis in EFL Textbooks as Measured

Advances in Asian Social Science

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Title Gender and Culture Analysis in EFL Textbooks as Measured
 
Creator Alemi, Minoo; Sharif University of Technology
Jafari, Hamid
 
Subject Proper Names; Gender Bias; Culture Bias; Global/Local Textbooks
 
Description Many studies have been carried out on gender and culture bias. Many of them show that EFL textbooks are more or lessbiased towards genders and non-Western cultures. The present study tries to analyze gender and culture bias and the visibility thereofin a somewhat different approach by investigating and tallying the gender and cultural origin of personal proper nouns. Carrying outa corpus-like analysis of personal proper names, we found nearly 1500 of such names in 10 local and global EFL textbooks havingalmost 1200 pages overall. The findings show that females are less visible in these textbooks than males and that the global textbookseries analyzed is not very global (only 5 % of the names were non-Western)
 
Publisher World Science Publisher
 
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Date 2012-04-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://worldsciencepublisher.org/journals/index.php/AASS/article/view/259
 
Source Advances in Asian Social Science; Vol 1, No 2 (2012); 237-243
2167-6429
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://worldsciencepublisher.org/journals/index.php/AASS/article/view/259/214
 
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