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From: Mev Miller <mev@winternet.com>
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Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1300] Fwd: ADDRESSING HETEROSEXIST BIAS IN EFL MATERIALS: A QUESTIONNAIRE
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I'm on a Women's Studies list and thought this might be of some interest to folks here.
Mev
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From: Tamarah Cohen, tamarahc@KHC.KANSAI-GAIDAI-U.AC.JP
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As a result of our Open LGBTF Caucus Meeting and an Energy Break discussion
group at TESOL 2001, we are asking you to help us collect data for a
research project that involves documenting and analyzing anti-homosexual
bias (and by extension, bias in favor of heterosexuals) in EFL textbooks
and materials. We're asking each of you to examine your texts for
exclusionary biases related to the gendering of sexuality and to report
these biases to Tamarah Cohen (tamarahc@hotmail.com), coordinator of the
project. Thanks in advance from all LGBTF Caucus members.
ADDRESSING HETEROSEXIST BIAS IN EFL MATERIALS: A QUESTIONNAIRE
· Please examine each of your ELT textbooks/readers for references to
(female and male) homosexuality.
· Answer the questions below (one questionnaire per textbook).
TITLE OF TEXTBOOK:
(A) Are any homosexuals featured in the text? If so, do they appear
throughout the text or in select sections that focus, for example, on
'sexuality' or 'lifestyles'? Identify the section(s) in which homosexual
women/men appear:
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(B) How many lesbian women are featured in the text? [ ____ ]
How is their lesbianism portrayed/conveyed? Be specific.
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What is their (apparent) ethnicity?
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(C) How many gay men are featured in the text? [ ____ ]
How is their gayness portrayed/conveyed? Be specific.
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What is their (apparent) ethnicity?
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(D) How many bisexual women are featured in the text? [ ____ ]
How is their bisexuality portrayed/conveyed? Be specific.
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What is their (apparent) ethnicity?
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(E) How many bisexual men are featured in the text? [ ____ ]
How is their bisexuality portrayed/conveyed? Be specific.
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What is their (apparent) ethnicity?
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REGARDING IN-TEXT REFERENCES TO HETEROSEXUALITY
(F) How is heterosexuality portrayed/conveyed in the text? Please cite
specific examples.
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(G) Can you find examples of the use of language which suggest that
heterosexuality is the norm or, conversely, that homosexuality is
anomalous, abnormal or aberrant (e.g., alternative lifestyles)? Be
specific.
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(H) Can you find exercises in which heterosexuality is assumed (e.g., What
is your idea of an ideal wife/husband?)? Be specific.
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TEXT-BASED GENDER BIAS IN GENERAL
(I) Can you find examples of occupational stereotyping in both type and
range of jobs (female characters in fewer and more menial occupational
roles than men; males performing household tasks inadequately)? Be specific.
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(J) Can you find examples of personal characteristic stereotyping (males as
sexually self-confident, females as timid)? Be specific.
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(K) Can you find examples of relationship stereotyping (women seen more
often in relation to men than men are to women, usually in relationships of
flaunted heterosexuality or a perpetually happy nuclear family)? Be specific.
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(L) Can you find examples of language use that reflect gendered
subordination/domination (e.g., women and girls speak less than men and
boys, initiate less frequently in mixed-sex dialogues, and make use of less
assertive language functions) or reinforce female invisibility (e.g.,
through the use of pseudo-generics like coed instead of student or gay
instead of lesbian; consistent application of the rule of male firstness,
as in men and women, gays and lesbians) and which therefore reinforce
heterosexist bias? Be specific.
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Tamarah Cohen
e-mail: tamarahc@khc.kansai-gaidai-u.ac.jp
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Mev Miller
mev@winternet.com
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