AN CRITICAL VISUAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER STEREOTYPING IN THE INDONESIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOK

Abstract

This research was intended to investigate the gender stereotype of the
textbook drawn from an English textbook series used in senior high
school employing a multimodal perspective and critical visual analysis.
The study used a descriptive design because the writer wanted to describe
the gender stereotype of the English textbook. The object of this study is
the Bahasa Inggris (edisi revisi 2017) textbook. The results of data analysis
using used three aspects of Kress and Van Leeuwen namely
representational meaning, interactive meaning, and compositional
meaning, the focus of the analysis was on images consisting of male
characters and women use the theory of "critical visual analysis" and the
conversation at the picture analyzed using critical discourse analysis
(CDA). For the purpose of this study, there are five images selected
according to research on gender stereotypes and these images consist of
random male and female characters in images. The corollary of this
critical image analysis was the teacher can know that the textbook is a
medium that can trap students in interpreting images and selection of
images in language textbooks must be more careful.