Contextualizing the ‘Role of Women in Pakistan Movement’ A Lesson of Class 9th English Language Textbook: A Critical Analysis

Abstract

This study focuses on how the role of women in Pakistan movement is presented in the 9th class English language textbook, published by the Sindh Textbook Board Jamshoro, is contextualized. This paper proposes to contextualize the underlined study by adopting the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). It is used as an instrument for data analysis. However, this article focuses particularly the three language skills, i.e. 1.Vocabulary Learning, 2. Reading Comprehension and 3. Writing Skills. This study showed that at vocabulary learning level, specific words are scrutinized as encompassing the mere replica and restoration of the gender prejudiced, xenophobic, factually misleading knowledge. In this, individual words are broken down as containing the insignificant multiplication and diversion of the gender inequality, bigot, and verifiable contorted information. On the other hand, this paper identified that the level of reading comprehension, the sentences as a whole are analyzed as giving the messages of gender stereotypes and marginalization, and false information. Further, it investigated that at the level of writing skills, the exercises are analyzed as containing the exact reflection of the lesson and no requirement of creative writing from the students’ part. The activities are investigated as containing the accurate impression of the lesson and no prerequisite of experimental writing from the student’s part.