Gender Representation and Intercultural Competence in Iranian EFL Coursebooks from the 1960s to 2020s | ||
| جستارهای زبانی | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 13 July 2025 | ||
| Document Type: مقالات علمی پژوهشی | ||
| DOI: 10.48311/lrr.2025.7224 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mahdi Dahmardeh* 1; Poune Mohammadi2 | ||
| 1Professor of Applied Linguistics and Education, The University of Tehran | ||
| 2Visiting lecturer at Sirjan University of Medical Sciences | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study aims to investigate the representation of gender and intercultural competence in the images and texts of 15 Iranian secondary school English coursebooks, published over six decades. Gender representation was investigated using the framework proposed by Dahmardeh and Kim (2020), and the scale developed by Solhaug and Kristensen (2020) was used as the criteria for investigating intercultural competence. The data were coded and counted using manifest content analysis. The results showed that Iranian English coursebooks mentioned males and females unequally in their texts across different decades, with one gender being represented more in each decade. Regarding gender representation in the images, males were represented more than females in almost all decades. The representation of males and females in the books published in the 1970s was almost equal, followed by extreme and sudden changes in gender representation in the 1980s. However, the books published in and after the 2000s presented a balanced picture of males and females. The coursebooks dealt with intercultural competence in their texts and images very rarely, limiting this concept to religious issues and neglecting other aspects. In fact, the coursebooks addressed only one category out of the 11 categories. Finally, the study ends with implications for coursebook authors, materials designers, teachers, students, and teacher trainers. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Coursebooks; English language; Gender Representation; intercultural competence | ||
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