高等学校英語教科書のセックス/ジェンダー表現

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how males and females are represented in the registered senior high school English textbooks used in Japan, focusing on the two major constituents, the reading texts and the pre-reading activities, and their relationships. The current and former versions of the textbooks for English I and English II, are examined and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results show that the twenty examined textbooks contain a multitude of problems in terms of sex and gender such as female invisibility, fixed gender roles or stereotypes, and androcentric frameworks for the reading comprehension of the learners.