Teshome DemisseSeife Getaneh2021-03-182023-11-092021-03-182023-11-092006-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/25578This study was designed to examll1e the portrayal of male and female sexes in ELT material s fo r primary schools in Addis Ababa and to check \I•hether there a r c manifestations o f sexism in those textbooks . To this end, linguistic a n d no n -linguistic aspects together with illustrations wereexamined . The paper h as two section s : t h e fir st section treats the textual con tents and the second section explores th e pictoria l ana lysis of the tex tbooks. Wi th regard to th e textual con t e nt, different lingui stic and n o n –linguistic catego ri es \,• e r e considered. First, a systematic content analysis was carried out \\• ith reference to topics and sub-topics, the language used , adjectives used with male a nd fema le subjects, and the masculine ge n e ri c co n struction s . An inquiry was a lso m a d e to see oc c u pational possibilities, ac ti vit ies, d iscourse r o les g iv e n to the sexes , and characters in passages a nd b io g r a phies . In the second section of the paper, the type of activities and the total numbe r of pictures were iden tifi ed for each sex by grade level. Overall results revealed th a t the textbooks portray job possibilities for females stereotypically. Femal e s are g iven limited job possibili ties compa red with. their counter p a rts. The re are also some instances of generic ma sculine l a n guages . Howeve r, other cate go ries r evealed no sex bias. Finally, these res ul ts suggested that the r e shou ld be a review of the textbooks for thei rgend errepr esentation s .EnglishGender RelationsThesis