Gender Identity of Male and Female Indonesian EFL College Students' Academic Essays: A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)  

Oleh:

Oktaviani, Cintya ; Jauhara, Dadan

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 61st TEFLIN International Conference : English Language Curriculum Development: Implications for Innovations in Language Policy and Planning, Pedagogical Practices, and Teacher Professional Development, Solo, 7 - 9 October 2014, page 1131-1136 .
Topik: Gender identity; academic essays; CDA; and transitivity analysis
Fulltext: GENDER IDENTITY OF MALE AND FEMALE INDONESIAN EFL.pdf (8.11MB)

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This study attempted to investigate gender identities within junior college students’ academic essays at one of the universities in Ciamis. In order to seek and identify subjects’ identity in gendered discourses containing multiple meanings, a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework of Fairclough (1989, 2001, 2010) was employed. To determine the sample, four junior college students’ essays from different sexes were purposively selected by considering such typical characteristics as: 1) written by the college students who had passed advanced writing course (Writing V); 2) the best written product as recommended by the writing lecturer; and 3) original in terms of the students’ own ideas. Transitivity analysis of Hallidayan SFL was also employed in the study. The findings showed that all the written products of both male and female writers indicate masculinity. The indication tends to happen since both male and female subjects likely change their identity depending on the situations such as habitual life, type of discourse, environment, and culture shaping and being shaped by. The present study offers benefits to the pedagogy of teaching writing in terms of teachers’ awareness of students’ needs and interests.

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