AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER REPRESENTATION IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED BRIGHT AN ENGLISH COURSE FOR EIGHTH GRADE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PUBLISHED BY ERLANGGA

Regita, Rina Pramesti (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER REPRESENTATION IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED BRIGHT AN ENGLISH COURSE FOR EIGHTH GRADE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PUBLISHED BY ERLANGGA. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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ABSTRACT AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER REPRESENTATION IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ENTITLED BRIGHT AN ENGLISH COURSE FOR EIGHTH GRADE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PUBLISHED BY ERLANGGA By REGITA RINA PRAMESTI Textbook is a sort of educational resource that teachers and students use to support teaching and learning at school. Teachers should evaluate all aspects that exist in the textbook such as types of vocabularies developed, illustrations, and social culture particularly gender representation. Gender representation is one of important aspects which is rarely considered by the teachers. This is proven when the researcher interviewed an English teacher to determine whether she consider gender while selecting textbooks. And it was discovered that the majority of them do not pay attention to gender. Though, the way gender is represented will impact students’ though and behave. That is why it is crucial to investigate gender representation in textbooks. Additionally, the researcher analyzed the eighth grade English textbook that is frequently utilized in most schools. The textbook is Bright an English Course for Junior High School Students. The researcher utilized the qualitative research design in concert with a content analysis. She analyzed how gender is represented using Logsdon’s theory in an English textbook. There are six aspects of gender representation by Logsdon: number of female or male pictures, female or male mentioned, female or male games, female or male roles, female or male role models, and pattern of mentioning female or male names. The researcher gathered data through documentation. Moreover, the researcher followed three processes in assessing the data collected by Miles and Huberman: data condensation, data display and drawing and verifying conclusion. The findings of this study indicate that men dominate all six aspects of gender representation. Actually, there is one of the most aspect of textbook that is dominated by men, namely the aspect of male iii mentioned Bright An English Course for Junior High School. Gender is not represented equally in the English textbook for eighth grade. It was found six aspects of gender representation by Logsdon in the textbook and the six aspects are dominated by male. The aspects are number of female or male mentioned, female/male mentioned, female/male roles, female or male games, female or male role models and pattern of mentioning female or male names. Key words: English Textbook, Gender Bias, Gender Representation.

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