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Jayakaran Mukundan
University Putra Malaysia
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MISINTERPRETATIONS OF REAL NEEDS IN SL AND FL WRITING SITUATIONS: IS THERE A NEED TO RE-EVALUATE DIRECTIONS? Jayakaran Mukundan
Indonesian JELT Vol 2, No 2 (2006): Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching Vol. 2 no. 2 October 2006
Publisher : Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (82.031 KB) | DOI: 10.25170/ijelt.v2i2.124

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Teachers of English in Second language and foreign language situations who teach writing have had to face many challenges, some of which have come about from rapid changes in the teaching of writing in the developed nations. The dilemma that teachers face is a big one – whether to totally embrace the changes (which are advocated by these developed nations as being necessary to achieve better teaching and learning, or to adopt and adapt where necessary. This article provides the over-view of problems faced by writing teachers in SL/FL situations and provides some suggestions as to how teachers can deal with “paradigm shifts” as in the ones that have affected the field of writing. Keywords:   composing, compositions, culture, directions, discourse communities, learning style preferences, misinterpretations, revolution, paradigm shift, process, product, writing
GENDER REPRESENTATION IN MALAYSIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS Jayakaran Mukundan; Vahid Nimehchisal
Indonesian JELT Vol 4, No 2 (2008): Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching Vol. 4 no. 2 October 2008
Publisher : Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya

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This study was conducted to describe the representation of gender in Forms 1, 2, 3, and 4 English language textbooks in Malaysian secondary schools. Gender-biased materials have been reported to affect the motivation of students who go through the textbooks (Treichler and Frank, 1989). Computer analysis tools and manual analysis were used to perform content and linguistic analyses. These methods in addition to discourse analysis of the text books aided the researchers to disclose the predictable patterns of sexism in the textbooks in order to identify the existence and extent of stereotypes. The results clearly indicate there is an absolute gender bias with males outnumbering females. Further, certain nouns referring to males precede those referring to females; however, males almost exclusively turn out to represent negative characters. Keywords:   Gender; English language textbooks; Content analysis; Corpus based analysis;  Stereo-typed roles 
Co-Authors Vahid Nimehchisal