JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Gendered Representation in Pakistani English Language Textbooks from a Multimodal Perspective

Language textbooks play a significant role in shaping students’ perspectives by promoting particular social and ideological viewpoints. This study conducts a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the latest eight secondary-level Pakistani English language textbooks to examine the visual and verbal representations o...

Journal of Arts, Meaning and Public Life

Underrepresentation and Exclusion: The Hidden Curriculum in Language Textbooks of Basic Level Education in Nepal

This study delves into the portrayal of gender in Nepal's Grade 5 language textbooks: the Nepali Textbook Grade 5 (NTB5) and the English Textbook Grade 5 (ETB5) using content analysis and the concept of hidden curriculum (Apple, 1971; Chao, 2011). For this, visual illustrations, textual references, authorship patterns,...

Do Language Textbooks Challenge or Reinforce Cultural Stereotypes? Perspectives of Advanced Learners of Arabic

Language textbooks do more than facilitate linguistic development; they also mediate learners’ encounters with the cultural communities represented through the target language. This role becomes particularly significant in advanced foreign-language education, where learners are expected to engage critically with comple...

"Speaking for gender equality"

Adolescents’ aspirations are influenced by gender stereotypes, whereby girls tend to pursue careers in communal roles while boys tend to pursue STEM careers and agentic positions. Language and linguistic interventions appear to be a promising avenue. In French, a grammatical gender language, the generic use of the masc...

of Gender Representation Across Literary