Gender Representation in English Textbook for 4th Grade Entitled Student’s Book My Next Word for Elementary School
Keywords:
gender representation, textbook, English for young learnerAbstract
This study was aimed to investigate gender representation in an English Textbook entitled
Student’s Book My Next Words for Elementary School which published by The Republic
of Indonesia’s Ministry of Education and Culture in 2021. Porecca’ (1984) framework
was adopted for analyzing the female and male representation in the English textbook:
omission (the ratio of females to males) in texts and illustrations, firstness, occupational
visibility, noun, masculine generic construction, and adjective. The visibility of gender
imbalance was found in the textbook. The number of visibility data depicted that male
was higher than female. For social dominance was not found in the textbook. However,
the variant of firstness, occupation, noun, masculine generic, and adjective for males are
varier than for females. Some stereotypes were found such as cooking for females’ activity
and the breadwinner role for males. A limitation of the study is that it focuses on one
textbook only. Thus, this study can’t be generalized. For this purpose, another study with
a larger sample would be required a deeper analysis of the picture of the EFL textbook.
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