An Analysis of Gender Visibility in the EFL Textbook for Grade 7 In Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to analyze an EFL textbook Grade 7 Middle School level book When English Rings A Bell published by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic Indonesia. This research method includes illustration analysis, text dialogue and reading passages. This analysis uses Porecca’s (1984) framework for the representation of male and female gender in the textbook. The result of the research based on descriptive qualitative analysis refers to: (1) gender visibility in both text and illustration, (2) female/male-oriented topic presentation in dialogue and reading passages and (3) gender specific/neutral nouns that indicate in each category gender. The result show that the gender representation of women is lower than male in the textbook.