Gender Bias: An analysis of Real Time for Junior High School
Students year VII
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Sari Novita Wibowo
112007044
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL PAGE ... ii
PERNYATAAN TIDAK PLAGIAT DAN PERSETUJUAN AKSES………. . iii
PUBLICATION AGREEMENT DECLARATION ... iv
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT ... v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vi
LIST OF TABLES ... vii
LIST OF FIGURES ... vii
ABSTRACT ... 1
1. INTRODUCTION ... ...1
2. THEREOTICAL FRAMEWORK ... 3
2.1VISIBILITY ... 3
3.2PARTICIPANTS ... 5
3.3DATA COLLECTION INSTRUMENT ... 6
3.4PROCEDURES OF DATA COLLECTION ... 7
4. FINDINGS & DISCUSSION ... 7
4.1GENDER REPRESENTATION THROUGH PRONOUNS ... 7
4.2GENDER REPRESENTATIONS THROUGH DISCOURSE ROLES ... 9
4.3GENDER REPRESENTATION THROUGH VISIBILITY ... 13
5. CONCLUSION ... 16
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENT ... 18
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LIST OF TABLE
TABLE 1...6
LIST OF FIGURES
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Gender Bias: An analysis of Real Time for Junior High School Students year VII
By: Sari Novita Wibowo
Abstract
This study was conducted to describe the representation of gender in Real Time for Junior High School students year VII. Gender biased textbooks are harmful for students because of several reasons.First, unconciously sexism may offend the learners as unintended racism (O’Neill, 1994). Second, it may provide less opportunity for female/male in practicing the language in the dialog(s) if less female/male characters included (Cincotta, 1978). Qualitative analysis was used to perform content and linguistic analysis. This method analyses seven units in Real time for Junior High School students year VII which contains 17 grammar focuses, 7 reading texts, and 54 exercises following the grammar focuses and reading passages. The findings clearly indicates that there is a positive gender bias with females outnumbering males. Most pronouns, discourse roles, and visibility refer to females. However, female and male roles presented in the textbook represent a traditional stereotype of female and male in Indonesia.
