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IJLLL 2024 Vol.10(6): 443-448
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2024.10.6.558

Gender Representation in Example Sentences: A Study of Chinese EFL Undergraduate Grammar Textbook

Ya Xu and Yi Zhang*
School of Foreign Studies, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Shaanxi, Xi’an, China
Email: xuyaaa@mail.nwpu.edu.cn (Y.X.), yizhang@nwpu.edu.cn (Y.Z.)
*Corresponding author

Manuscript received July 24, 2024, revised August 14, 2024; accepted August 29, 2024; published November 25, 2024.

Abstract—The study of gender representation in textbooks began in the 1970s, and a number of studies have covered the issues of gender stereotypes and gender bias in textbooks. To explore whether such phenomena exist in Chinese EFL textbooks, the present study adopted quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the example sentences in a textbook New Grammar Course with the guidance of Macaulay and Brice’s coding scheme. Regarding the gender representation in the example sentences, the study first found that male-gendered arguments outnumbered female-gendered arguments significantly. Second, this suggested that males were more represented as subjects and agents while females as objects and patients. Third, it showed that females were more likely to be referred to a kinship term like wife whereas males were likely to have more decent occupations, do more intellectual work, and perpetrate violence. This study aims to show the phenomena of gender inequality in the current textbook, and have some implications for revision work of Chinese EFL textbooks.

Keywords—example, gender studies, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), EFL textbook, gender representation


Cite: Ya Xu and Yi Zhang, "Gender Representation in Example Sentences: A Study of Chinese EFL Undergraduate Grammar Textbook," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 443-448, 2024.

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