AN ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL CONTENT IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS

SHINTA, RENIKA (2022) AN ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL CONTENT IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS. Undergraduate thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT An Analysis of Cultural Content in Bahasa Inggris, Pathway to English, Talk Active English Textbooks for Tenth grade of Senior High School Culture is one of the important aspect that appearance in the textbook. This study explored the cultural content in reading text of three English textbooks for senior high school grade X from different publishers. The aim of this study was to investigate what cultures are represented in the three English textbooks, the most dominant of cultures in three English textbooks, and how cultures are represented in the three English textbooks. This study adopted two frameworks from Cortazzi and Jin (1999) about types of culture and framework from Adaskou, Britten, and Fahsi (1990) about Sense of Culture. This study used descriptive qualitative research. The instruments of this study were documentation and the researcher itself. The data was obtained through document analysis. Data analysis used three major steps: data condensation, data display, drawing and verifying conclusion. The study revealed some major findings. Firstly, the data finding showed that three English textbook contained source culture, target culture, and international culture. Secondly, three English textbooks dominantly presented through source culture compared to target culture and international culture. Thirdly, aesthetic sense (52.63%) in Bahasa Inggris, (50%) in Pathway to English textbook, and (51.43%) in Talk Active textbook was the most dominant sense of culture that present in three English textbooks compared to the sociological sense, semantic sense, and pragmatic sense. Based on findings, the researcher suggested for iv English teacher to understand well about kind of cultural content in the textbooks so that the teacher will be good at explaining material about culture that appearance in textbook. Keywords: Culture, sense of culture, textbook, types of culture

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