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Yayın A comparative study of the coursebook English File third and fourth editions in terms of gender representation(Maltepe Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, 2022) Elçin, Hande; Töngür, A. NejatGender inequality, stereotyping, and discrimination against women are among the current debate topics in the world, and eliminating these inequalities and biases in every field is the aim of many people to live in a fairer society. As coursebooks play an essential role in teachers’ and students’ lives, the influential power of coursebooks is also a major issue for gender representation. It is especially important when students’ gender development is not completed when they use these coursebooks at school. Also, as time changes, improvements in gender representation are inevitably expected. Because of the modernization and recreation of gender roles, the desire to go beyond stereotyping in coursebooks is worth researching to raise awareness of equal gender representations. For this purpose, this study aims to examine gender representations in six coursebooks from one of the most widely used coursebook series, English File. Because the fourth edition of the series is newly released, a comparative study with content analysis is used to demonstrate the most recent changes between the third and fourth editions. The analysis of how genders are represented is shown first, followed by a comparison of the results of both editions in each category. The categories which are designated to conduct the analysis are: male and female characters in textual and visual materials; famous male and female characters; occupations; household activities; family roles. In each category, the representations are counted, and then both editions are compared at the elementary, pre-intermediate, and intermediate levels. The comparison of results indicates that even though some small changes are found to achieve equality, the fourth edition does not reveal a significant improvement in balancing gender representations and eliminating gender bias. Characters are still represented according to stereotypes; males are more visible in textual and visual materials, and female characters are represented more in domestic roles, house chores, and subservient occupations. The results of the study are presented to give insights and raise awareness for teachers, students, policymakers, and researchers.