Abstract
Driven by sparse investigations on cultural content in a textbook in English as a foreign language context, this study aims to analyze the cultural information embedded in an English textbook for senior high school students in Indonesia. A critical content analysis was employed to analyze the textbook entitled “Pathway to English for SMA/MA Grade XI” in compliance with the cultural information cores from Adaskou et al. (1990). The findings showed that the textbook contains four main topics of cultural information infused in 14 reading texts, 20 pictures, 30 recordings, and seven cultural awareness texts. The reading texts provide equal information related to target culture (i.e., the culture belongs to English speaking countries) and local culture, but the pictures, recordings, and cultural awareness topics tend to inform the target culture information. Furthermore, the researchers found several weaknesses in the reading texts and pictures where the information provided was too general that they neither contain cultural information nor relevant to other information in the textbook. Meanwhile, all pictures were in white and black with less detail provided. The results suggested that teachers should adapt and balance the cultural information in the textbook with their local cultures or norms by finding other materials from various sources.
Highlights
Deriving the teaching and learning process in the classroom embeds learning material for students
How the authors imply the local culture that the English teachers could integrate with the material in their classroom was explored
Teaching media such as textbooks provide much information related to the culture, norms, and beliefs of one’s country
Summary
Deriving the teaching and learning process in the classroom embeds learning material for students. The most basic principle of learning material is the use of a textbook as one important source during the teaching and learning process. Brown (2001) asserted that the textbook is crucial to support the teaching-learning process. Hutchinson and Torres (1994) pointed out that textbooks assist teachers to manage and carry out lessons in the classroom. The use of the textbook could have been meant to save time, to give directions about the material, and to facilitate homework. The textbook enables students to learn better, faster, and more . It contains various information including various cultural values and norms around the world
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