GENDER REPRESENTATION(S) IN A 9TH GRADE OXFORD ENGLISH TEXTBOOK: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS

Abstract

Language is crucial in generating gender-specific distinctiveness and arrangement. Within the textbook, language also generates gender ideology. The sections of certain textbooks are constructed either considerably or inaccurately. This study will investigate gender participation within the Oxford 9th grade curriculum released by Oxford University Press. Such research will indeed be carried out to determine the proportion of male and female participants within the 9^th-level course book. The data has been analyzed quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Such findings were hen investigated by utilizing a Corpus tool Antconc 3.5.8 (2019) and a content evaluation approach. The current study is useful, as it includes both students and instructors in raising awareness regarding gender issues inside curriculums. The whole research will indeed aid in the creation of curricula as well as the elimination of gender prejudice in the minds of students and instructors.