Research on Sexist Language in EFL Literature:: Towards a Non-Sexist Approach

• Autores: Carmen Pérez Sabater
• Localización: Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras, ISSN 1697-7467, Nº. 23, 2015, págs. 187-203
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.30827/digibug.53766
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  • español

    Centrado en los estudios sobre lenguaje y género, este artículo presenta los resultados de un análisis del discurso que examina las prácticas discursivas de los libros de texto más representativos de las últimas décadas usados en las clases de inglés en España. El análisis señala que las mujeres han sido discriminadas en los libros de texto publicados en las últimas décadas del siglo XX. Por el contrario, los materiales del corpus que siguen el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas muestran una situación muy diferente dado que representan a ambos sexos de forma igualitaria, favoreciendo, en algunos casos, una discriminación positiva hacia las mujeres.

  • English

    Centred on studies on language and gender, this article presents the results of a discourse analysis that examines the discourse practices of some of the most representative EFL textbooks published in the last decades in Spain. The analysis shows that women were subrepresented in the textbooks published in the last decades of the 20th century. On the contrary, a very different situation occurs in the materials of the corpus calibrated to The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages since they reveal a balanced representation of sexes1 , favouring, in some cases, a positive discrimination approach towards women.

    Keywords: discourse analysis, EFL, gender bias, Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

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