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New understandings of gender and language classroom research: Texts, teacher talk and student talk

Sunderland, Jane·2000·Language Teaching Research
DOI 10.1177/136216880000400204
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While gender has been an ongoing if sometimes peripheral area of interest for researchers and practitioners in language education, conceptualizations of gender itself have developed apace. This means that, unfortunately, gender is at times viewed in an outdated way in language education, resulting in oversimplification and unproductive generalizations. In particular, women and girls are sometimes simplistically represented as victims of gender bias in language textbooks, and of male dominance in the classroom. This picture is far from being the full one, does little, I would argue, to help female students, and may mislead teachers. In this paper I present a rather more complex picture. I illustrate some subtleties and complexities of gender in language education, and suggest some implications of research for educational practice. I also demonstrate alternatives for research into gender and language classrooms, showing both how the more familiar approaches can be fruitfully developed and how researchers can go beyond them. It is important that both researchers working in the area of gender and language education, and teachers in their practice, should be able to engage with considerations of agency, individuality and diversity, while not losing sight of the still-important notions of disadvantage and of gender itself.

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Authors
Sunderland, J.
Affiliations
Lancaster University (GB)
Corresponding author
Sunderland, Jane
ORCID
Sunderland, Jane
Venue
Language Teaching Research
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2000-04
Volume
4
Issue
2
Pages
149-173
ISSN
  • 1362-1688 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-0954
DOI
10.1177/136216880000400204
OpenAlex
W2089176458
Cited by
142
References
32
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 10
FWCI
1.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Language Teaching Research (publishedVersion)
  • Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies in Language
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Sexuality, and Education
Keywords
teacher discourse, student discourse, gender bias in textbooks, female students, agency, individuality, diversity, disadvantage, conceptualization of gender

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