Improving Students’ Speaking Performance through Video

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal how women are represented based on German online news. The source of this research is about sexual harassment against women on German online media Tagesspiegel. This research uses the CMDA Herring method to express the context of communication in online media, as well as using the transitivity analysis of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The results showed that German online media tends to be unfavorable toward women. It was proven based on the research findings. Women victims of sexual harassment are represented as passive recipients of men's actions. The condition of women illustrating helplessness and weakness. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that German online news texts published in Tagesspiegel are gender bias.