A systematic content analysis of gender treatment in applied linguistics research

Thesis

Gender, and sex are generally presumed to refer to two different concepts, namely socio-cultural expectations with regards to behaviour, and biology respectively. However, research on gender as an independent variable in applied linguistics research is often confounded with that on sex, and their lack of disambiguation leads to often conflicting, and inconclusive results in the field.

To substantiate this claim, this study aimed to critically investigate whe... Expand abstract

Authors: Bigos, F

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-bp6a1a7a1
• Type of award: MSc taught course
• Level of award: Masters
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: ALSLA2024; methods; gender; variables; measurement; reliability; ALSLA; qualitative text analysis; corpus analysis; research methodology; methodological rigour; validity
• Subjects: Reliability; Research; Gender; Applied linguistics; Methods; Qualitative research; Measurement; Validity