A Corpus Study of Gender Representation in Chinese Secondary School EFL Textbooks

Abstract

: This study seeks to examine the representation of gender in a popular series of Chinese secondary school EFL textbooks and investigate whether the Chinese government‟s promotion of the „gender-equal‟ society is reflected through the patterns of gender representation in these textbooks. The present study analyzed one popular series of EFL textbooks published in 2012 for Chinese secondary school students with corpus linguistic techniques (e.g. concordances, collocate-Lancs Box). While some of the findings (e.g