Analysis Of How Gender Relations Have Been Portrayed In Elt Materials For Primary Schools In Addis Ababa And Its Implications For Learners Performance And Future Career

Thi s stud y was designed to examll1e the portrayal o f m a le a nd fem a lernsex es in ELT material s fo r primary schools in Addis Ababa a nd to c h eckrnI·hether there a r c manifestations o f sexism in those textbooks . T o thisrnend, linguistic a n d no n -ling uistic aspects t ogeth e r with illu strations werernexamin ed .rnThe paper h as two section s : t h e fir st section treats the textual con tentsrna nd th e second section explores th e pictoria l ana lysis of the tex tbooks.rnWi th regard to th e textual con t e nt, different lingui stic and n o n -linguis ti crncatego ri es ,· e r e considered. First, a systema tic conte nt analysis wasrncarried out · ith reference to topics and sub-topics, t h e la n gu age use d ,rnadjectives u sed with male a nd fema le subjects, and the masculinernge n e ri c co n struction s . An inquiry was a lso m a d e to see oc c u pationalrnpossibilities, ac ti vit ies, d iscourse r o les g iv e n to the sexes , a n d c h a racte r srnin passages a nd b io g r a phies . In the second section of the paper, the typernof activ itie s and the total numbe r of pictures were iden tifi ed for each sexrnby grade level.rnOverall results revealed th a t the textbooks portray job possibilities forrnfemales stereotypically. Femal e s are g iven limited job possibili tiesrncompa red with. their counter p a rts. The re are also some instances ofrngeneric ma sculine l a n guages . Howeve r, other cate go ries r evealed no sexrnbias. Finally, these res ul ts suggested that the r e shou ld be a review ofrnthe textbooks for thei r gend e r r epr ese ntation s .

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