EXPLORING PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION TOWARDS GENDER BIASED TEXTS IN EFL TEXTBOOK

Velya Primativa

Abstract


In education, gender is a very serious issue that needs to be discussed, particularly in academic circles. Textbooks are the only open and inexpensive resource for education, they should have been a critical tool to identify better gender equity. The result of the research reveal that pre-service teachers still can not really comprehend the idea of gender bias and unable to notice that the texts are gendered.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um006v5i22021p203-212

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