Gender bias through pictures in the new English textbook set for Vietnamese primary schools: A critical discourse analysis = Sự kì thị giới qua hình ảnh bộ sách giáo khoa tiếng Anh mới dùng cho bậc tiểu học tại Việt Nam qua góc nhìn phân tích diễn ngôn phê phán

Abstract

The research attempts to detectthe presence ofgender bias as a social phenomenonthrough pictures in the new English textbook set for Vietnamese primary schools in order to extract the ideology behind their constructions. To be specific, it1/ examines how different genders arerepresented via pictures in the new English textbook set for Vietnamese primary schools, and 2/ finds out whethergendered visual representationsillustrate gender biasin this textbook set.Based on the results, implications for combating gender inequality in textbooks’ pictures were drawnout