AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER CONSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

Azhari, Hamim (2021) AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER CONSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL. Diploma thesis, IAIN BENGKULU.

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Abstract

Gender is a combination of nature and culture, biological traits as well as learned behaviors. Gender construction makes the difference between men and women. During this time, gender socialization is by spreading messages, discourse, values, norms, beliefs and models that represent certain gender representations. A texttbook is one of agent to socialize cultures including the concept of gender. If the textbook contains gender issues without further understanding, it may confuse students. The purpose of this study was to find out gender construction in English textbooks for eighth and ninth grade students. The method of this research was Qualitative method with an approach the Content Analysis technique. The Subject of this research was an English textbook entitled When English Rings a Bell published by the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2017 and an English textbook entitled Think Globally Act Locally published by the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2015. Data analysis techique use six aspect of Logsdon, that is number of female/male pictures, number of female/male mentioned, number of female/male roles, number of female/male games, number of female/male roles models, and pattern of mentioning female/male names. The results of this study indicate the existence of gender inequality in each book. The first book entitled When English Rings A Bell shows that women dominate three aspects, namely the number of female/male pictures, the number of female/male mentioned, pattern of mentioning female/male names. Whereas men dominate two aspects, namely the number of female/male roles, the number of female male role models. And there is one aspect that has the same dominant, namely the number of female/male games. As for the second book entitled Think Globally Act Locally that men dominate in all aspects. Therefore, it can be concluded that gender is represented unequally in the book When English Rings A Bell and Think Globally Act Locally.

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