Analyzing Unintentional Information in Teaching Materials from the Perspective of Gender Role

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to review ways of analyzing information in teaching materials by identifying the information that is written unintentionally and establishing the causes for such information. Teaching materials contain not only practical information such as sentence patterns, grammar, and conversation strategies for learning purposes, but also information that was unconsciously and unintentionally written by the authors. Students, whether they consciously or not, receive various types of information from teaching materials. There are two approaches taken in this study to identify unintentional information: 1) analyzing the overall tendency of the information; and 2)analyzing individual topics following the course of study. Based on these two analyses, this study will try to indicate that unintentional information such as: 1) main characters being male; and 2) teachers being male can be perceived from teaching materials, and to establish possible causes for such information.