CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SELECTED COURSE SYLLABUS GUIDED BY GENDER FAIR LANGUAGE
Jean Grace M. Solina
Gender-fair language ďƒź
minimizes unnecessary concern about gender in your subject matter, allowing both you and your reader to focus on what people do rather than on which sex they happen to be.
Sexism in language •Men or women are excluded when discussing a topic that is applicable to both sex
Statement of the Problem • What are the gender neutral words used in the SAS course syllabus A.Y.20122013? • What are the gender bias in language occurred in the said corpus? • What are gender sensitivity trainings attended by the SAS present professors and lecturers?
Significance of the Study •
To the teachers
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To the writers and students
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To the future researchers
Scope and Limitation The study will be limited to the gender neutral words and gender bias in language as used in the SAS course syllabus from s.y. 2012-2013, first and second semester which will serve as a corpus to be analyzed. The present SAS college professors will be interviewed to know the gender sensitivity that they attended.
Conceptual Framework Input SAS COURSE SYLLABUS S.Y. 2012-2013, 1ST AND 2ND SEMESTER
Output Gender Fair Language guidelines
•Gender fair words •Gender biased words