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T1 The representation of gender in turkish as a foreign language (TFL) coursebooks
T2 La representación del género en los libros de texto de turco como lengua extranjera (TLE)
A1 Kızıltan, Nalan
A1 Atlı, Işıl
A1 Gürkan, Senem
K1 Turkish
K1 Coursebook
K1 Gender Bias
K1 Language Teaching
K1 Foreign Languages
K1 Turco
K1 Libro de texto
K1 Prejuicios de género
K1 Enseñanza de idiomas
K1 Lenguas extranjeras
K1 Filología
K1 Philology
AB Some languages are grammatically gender-bound. Spanish and French, for example, assign a gender to each and every noun while Turkish has a gender-free grammatical system. However, no language is completely genderless. The overall purpose of this study is to examine the linguistic and non-linguistic manifestation of gender in Turkish as a foreign language (TFL) coursebooks. To that end, the portrayal of women and men in three volumes of the coursebook series Yeni Hitit Yabancılar için Türkçe Ders Kitabı (The Yeni Hitit Turkish Coursebook for Foreigners) has been studied using content analysis. In this study, the coursebook series has been quantitatively analysed with respect to the visibility of female and male characters in the visuals and written context and firstplace occurrences and the number of words uttered by both sexes in mixed-gender conversations. Female and male characters in the coursebook series have also been compared according to their professional roles, hobbies and interests, representation in the public and private sphere and the number and quality of descriptive adjectives. The findings have shown that although men are slightly over represented in the visuals and written content, the authors of the series seem to have achieved a balanced manifestation of female and male characters in the dialogues. However, men are represented in a wider range of professional roles than women. There is no major difference between women and men with regard to the frequency of descriptive adjectives.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá
SN 1989-0796
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37541
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37541
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 23-abr-2024