RT info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
T1 Ethnic and gender representation in published elt materials: a diachronic comparison
A1 Alonso Santamarina, Javier
A2 Máster Univ. en Formación del Profes. en E.S.O.Bachillerato, F.P. y E.Ii.
AB The purpose of this research is that of comparing the representation of both genderand ethnicity in two different examples of published English Language Teaching (henceforth,ELT) materials; the textbook I used as a secondary education student in 2015/2016, and theone that is currently assigned in the high school where I am doing my internship (2021/2022).The primary objective is to see if any improvements have been made in the portrayal of thesetwo aspects, taking into account, above all, negative stereotyping towards women andnon-white people.In section 2 I introduce some of the studies that have been developed in differentcountries regarding racial and women’s representation in learning materials. Although thereare many such studies, it would appear that no one has looked at it specifically from adiachronic perspective. It was this perspective I decided to take on published materials in thisstudy.This dissertation could be divided into three different parts: the analyses of genderand ethnic representation of both coursebooks under study and a proposal for counteractingnegative stereotyping.The gender analysis begins with a categorisation of the activities to which specialattention will be paid to develop this work. Below, a review of the different units and sectionsof the first book, from which several tables will be created offering quantitative data that willlater be reflected in a series of pie charts. Then, an identical procedure will be followed withbook number two. In order to achieve this task, all the images and pictures portraying humanfigures have been taken into account.Later, the same methodology will be developed in order to look at ethnicrepresentation, which has been separated into the pictorial depiction of white and non-whitepeople.Afterwards, I introduce a proposal for counteracting negative stereotypes that ateacher may find in the coursebook they are using, which, as we will see, is also useful forworking with the social and civic competence, a very important aspect which is included andreflected in the guidelines established in the relevant legislation. Finally, this dissertation endswith a section offering the results and conclusions obtained from the comparison of genderand ethnic representation in both coursebooks, and an appendix including both the tablescarrying the quantitative data regarding both issues under study from which the graphics werecreated in the analysis section as well as the materials proposed in section 5.Key words: ethnicity, ELT materials, gender, and stereotypes.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/31788
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/31788
LA en
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 15-may-2024