Representación de lo femenino en libros de texto de francés como lengua extranjera

Concepción Porras Pérez; Raúl Ruiz Cecilia

doi:10.31637/epsir-2024-1117

Authors

Concepción Porras Pérez University of Granada https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5767-0046
Raúl Ruiz Cecilia University of Granada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8119-549X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2024-1117

Keywords:

French language teaching, FLE, female representation, school textbooks, secondary education, gender stereotypes, sexism in textbooks, gender inequality

Abstract

Introduction: Currently, the use of textbooks in foreign language classes continues to be a significant resource in the language learning process. Thus, it is imperative to consider the concepts and ethical values that these materials can transmit to students, being crucial to focus on the gender stereotypes that persist in many of the textbooks used in the classroom. Therefore, it is essential to update these materials in order to contribute to the social development of women from the school stage. Methodology: We will adopt a documentary research approach, implemented through a literature review, identifying and analyzing previous studies conducted on the teaching of French as a foreign language. Results: The manuals analyzed tend to present men and women in a stereotypical manner, assigning them traditional roles in the home and at work, respectively. We observed that some manuals do not follow the principles of gender equality established in the educational curriculum Discussions: Destacamos que numerosos manuales de francés utilizados en el aula perpetúan, de diversas formas, la imagen estereotipada y subordinada de la mujer al heteropatriarcado. Conclusions: The inequality with which school textbooks treat the female sex in their educational materials is evident.

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Author Biographies

Concepción Porras Pérez, University of Granada

Acting substitute teacher in the Department of Language and Literature Didactics in the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Granada since 2018. I teach French subjects in the Early Childhood Education Degree and, mainly, in the French speciality of the Primary Education Degree. At the same time, I am researching my doctoral thesis which focuses on the analysis of French as a foreign language textbooks used in Spain, with a particular focus on gender issues.

Raúl Ruiz Cecilia, University of Granada

Lecturer in Language and Literature Didactics at the University of Granada. His research interests focus on multicultural literature, reading in a foreign language, gender studies and ICT in language learning. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Berkeley (2007) and Harvard University (2008). He has taught in Italy, France, UK, Germany, Portugal and Greece. Through a series of projects funded by the European Commission he has explored questions of professional identity, existential issues and narrative biography applied to education. She is currently leading an R&D project aimed at examining the well-being of teachers of English as a foreign language.

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