AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER REPRESENTATION IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED “PRACTICE YOUR ENGLISH COMPETENCE” FOR EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS PUBLISHED BY ERLANGGA

NOSTI, RODIAH (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER REPRESENTATION IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED “PRACTICE YOUR ENGLISH COMPETENCE” FOR EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS PUBLISHED BY ERLANGGA. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This research would like to analyze the gender representation in the English textbook entitled “Practice your English competence” published by Erlangga. Students learn the language using the textbook, and language influences how they understand and interpret the world around them. It is important that the textbook have to reflect balanced images and information about males and females and support broad choices and many roles for both sexes because the students are influenced by attitudes and values around them, including the values of the textbook which they learn in school. So, it is important to analyze and will be interesting to discuss gender in the textbook. It is used qualitative method by using content analysis technique. The results were focused on the analysis of four aspects which suggested by D. Ashley Stockdale. They were: 1) the number of female/male visibility, 2) number of female/male firstness, 3) male and female nouns, 4) female/male discourse role. The result of this research showed gender representation in Practice your English Competence textbook. The data show that men dominate in all aspects, namely visibility, female/male firstness, female/male nouns, and female/male discourse roles. It can be concluded that gender representation in this book is dominated by males. Keywords: English Textbook; Gender Representation; Junior High School

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