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A CULTURAL CONTENT ANALYSIS ON SPEAKING MATERIALS AND ACTIVITIES FOR TENTH GRADERS OF INDONESIAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL EFL TEXTBOOK

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Textbooks as the printed form of instructional materials play a vital role in any
English language teaching program. An evaluation of English textbooks was needed
to make sure the appropriates of the English textbooks for students. The textbooks
should be not only valued based on their visual illustration but also based on their
cultural background and goals of EFL learning.
The aim of the study was to report the results of a textbook analysis in a attempt to
identify which type of culture and what themes of culture were introduced in tenth
graders of Indonesian senior high school EFL textbook by using checklist worksheet.
Theory of cultures proposed by Cortazzi & Jin and Chen & Lee were adapted for
examining specific aspects of culture under Big “C” and little “c” culture.
The researcher found that the English textbook showed four types of culture namely
source culture, target culture, international culture and unidentified culture The
analysis revealed that the percentage of source culture (45,7%) and unidentified
culture (42,9%) is the same in the textbook. Among identified cultural content, the
textbook was dominated by source culture content while international culture (5,7%)
and target culture (5,7%) contained small percentage. It was also found out that
among the 19 cultural themes under Big “C” and little “c” culture, the researcher
found four themes such as lifestyle, gestures, and holiday under little “c” culture and
only history under Big “C” culture. The predominant theme was little “c” of lifestyle
which is used 17 times from 35 units material.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

KS TBI-18 066

Penerbit

Kediri : IAIN Kediri., 2018

Deskripsi Fisik

xiv, 57 hlm., 29 cm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

932211314

Klasifikasi

KS TBI-18

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

Ed. 1, cet. 1

Subjek

EFL textbook
Cultural contents

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