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Gender Identity in the French World Language Classroom - Coggle Diagram
Gender Identity in the French World Language Classroom
Challenges related to teaching of a gender-based language
Gendered nouns
Gendered third person pronouns
Gendered determiners
Gendered adjectives
Gendered past-participles
Gender agreement of the determiners, adjectives, and past participles with the noun/pronoun they refer to.
Sexist prescriptivist grammatical rules, such as “the masculine always wins in matters of agreement.”
Student Gender Identities
Evolution of gender and identity
Gender Fluidity
Teacher Roles
Gender neutral/inclusive strategies
Use doublets (les étudiantes et
étudiants “the female students and male students’)
Use of neutral titles of address
Use of use neutral epicenes terms (une
personne “a person,” une équipe de recherche “a research team’)
Use gender-inclusive gender-neutral pronouns “ille., “iel.” “yel.” or “ielle.”
Ask students how they
would like to be addressed,
Use the point median (étudiant.e.s, étudiant-e-s or étudiant/e/s)
Raise awareness about language related LGBTQIA+ issues
Challenges to language change
French Academy
The new gender neutral forms might (initially) sound very strange and could be difficult to use consistently even for native speakers of the language.
Spoken language goes through a slow process of change across generations of speakers.
No consensus on which form to use, even among the non-binary community.