高中英文教科書性別呈現之內容分析

Gender Representation in English Textbooks of Senior High School- A Content Analysis

本研究旨在探討高中英文教科書當中性別角色之呈現。分析範圍為三民版高中英文教科書第一到六冊所有課文選文，分析理論架構採內容分析法。在性別呈現的面相共分為五大類別：人物數量與出現頻率、社會角色、家庭角色、出現順序、圖片人物性別呈現。研究發現如下：在人物數量方面，男性人物遠多於女性人物數目，提及頻率男性亦高於女性，呈現性別不均之情形；在社會角色的扮演上，男性扮演的社會角色較女性扮演的社會角色更多元；兩性扮演的家庭角色均為數不多；男女出現順序詞組大多反映出英文使用者約定俗成的用法，即男性置於女性前；圖片呈現人物的性別比例仍是男大於女。最後，本文提供未來研究相關建議，可著眼於教科書文本產生與使用的時空背景脈絡進一步分析。

The present study aims at exploring the gender representation of English textbooks in senior high school. The targeted materials for analysis were taken from Book One to Book Six in Sanmin version. The methodology adopted for the present study was content analysis. Gender representation was investigated from five aspects: characters and frequency, social roles, domestic roles, order of appearance, and pictorial representation. The findings are as follows: (1) in characters and frequency, the number of male characters is a lot higher than that of female characters, and so is the frequency of mention, (2) in social roles, the roles performed by males are of greater variety than those by females, (3) in domestic roles, neither genders play domestic roles, (4) in order of appearance, a conventional expression in English language is adopted, namely, male before female, and (5) in pictorial representation, the ratio of male characters to female remains relatively high. To sum up, suggestions for further studies are provided for the production and practice of textbooks in terms of temporal and spatial backgrounds.