A Corpus Analysis of Middle School English Textbooks (중학교 2학년 영어 교과서 코퍼스 분석)

Mie-Ae Jung (정미애)

A Corpus Analysis of Middle School English Textbooks

인문논총
2009, 23(), pp.135-157
Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

Mie-Ae Jung ¹

¹금강대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This study presents the results of corpus analysis of English textbooks to show that gender bias and stereotyping are widespread in the English textbooks for the second year middle school students in Korea. This study focused on the numerical differences of male- and female-related terms including pronouns and proper nouns, descriptive adjectives, occupational differences. Results from this analysis indicate that the majority of texts in English textbooks for Korean second year middle school students are biased toward male-gendered NPs, and that they also contain highly stereotyped representations of both genders. (Geumgang University)

KEYWORDS

English textbooks, gender, bias, stereotypes, corpus analysis

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