Gender-fair language (GFL) in the academic writing of pre-service teachers of Spanish

The article analyses the use of GFL in a corpus of 187 academic texts created by pre-service teachers. It reveals how participants reached a balance between the recommendations of GFL guides and the standard normative grammar included in the school curriculum. The study shows that although future te...

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Autores: Núñez Román, Francisco, Hunt Gómez, Coral Ivy, Gómez Camacho, Alejandro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/156160
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/156160
https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2020.1750253
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Gender-fair language
Academic writing
Teacher training
Sexist language
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Sumario:The article analyses the use of GFL in a corpus of 187 academic texts created by pre-service teachers. It reveals how participants reached a balance between the recommendations of GFL guides and the standard normative grammar included in the school curriculum. The study shows that although future teachers are aware of GFL and sensitive to discrimination, they used a combination of the generic masculine with GFL recommendations when deemed necessary. This has great pedagogical potential for the Spanish classroom, together with the potential to transform language and society