Integration Of The Transitivity Model To Probe Gender Issues In Literary Texts And Its Implication On Teaching English As A Foreign Language

Résumé: The topicality of this paper lies in the effects of the linguistic utilization of literature that reflects social realities, mainly the crave of discerning complications on the relationship between men and women, inside a foreign language classroom. The aim of the present paper is to study the contribution of the Linguistic Analysis of literary works for unveiling the secrecy of gender dichotomy to the teaching of English as a Foreign Language. Hence, it is the aim of this paper to develop a working systemic-functional model through proposing lexico- grammatical strategies for the ideational construal in meaning-making. It is based on the analysis of verbs (processes) used by male and female characters selected from some literary works, attached to different cultural backgrounds. This study postulates that analysis of language choice serves as a means to enable foreign language learners have an obvious reflection over gender-specific issues to enhance culture learning. Therefore, we recommend that the aforesaid framework can be utilized as a pedagogical tool in teaching EFL to improve the dynamics of socio-cultural practices taking place in classroom learning context.

Publié dans la revue: Journal of Studies in Language, Culture and Society (JSLCS)