Constructing Gender and Sexuality in the EFL Classroom in Poland: Textbook Construction and Classroom Negotiation?

In our conversations with EFL teachers (both male and female) whom we asked to participate in our project, ¹ we often heard comments such as ‘oh, I only teach English, there is nothing related to gender in my classes’. Such a comment aptly summarises EFL teachers’ lack of awareness of the various ways in which gender primarily (but also other social categories) is (un-)consciously drawn on in the act of teaching and learning.