How can I make my teaching gender fair?
British Council - Teaching English
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The Importance of Gender in Language
We are seeing languages as something which can support and be progressive within society rather than something which is sort of holding society back. There are so many words that a bunch of start the thinking process within the learners, they will themselves begin to notice these words. For example, if we sort of just look, we are going out and we see some, we do say statements like, okay, somebody left their book. So why not apply to apply it to when it's not relevant also? Do we need to specify the gender at all if we can make it more gender neutral?
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