Abstract
Abstract
 Cultural understanding is the core of language acquisition because language and culture can not be seperated with language. Culture can be understand through media either electronic or manual such internet, magazine, textbooks etc. Textbook is one of the media used most people in school. In textbooks, there are many cultural aspects presented for students. Therefore, this study aimed at presenting the cultural aspects, describing the frequency of cultural aspects and Indonesian cultural aspects in English textbooks of 2013 curriculum and describing the level of quality of English textbooks in terms of intercultural awareness.
 This study employed a qualitative research design. The data are the cultural aspects and Indonesian cultural aspects in English textbooks of 2013 curriculum grade X, XI and XII. The textbook of these grades has not analyzed by the other researchers. The results show that English textbooks grade X, XI and XII contained 490 cultural aspects consisting of 232 products, 75 practices, 11 perspectives and 172 persons (Yuen:2001).While Indonesian cultural aspects contained 127 consisting of 64 cultural aspects on grade X, 34 on grade XI, and 29 on grade XII.
 From the results of the study, it can be concluded that the presentation of cultural aspects and Indonesian cultural aspects are not balanced and does not provide student to have intercultural awareness. And third English textbooks are equality to use in terms of basic cultural awareness. Whereas, advanced cultural awareness and intercultural awareness leveldo not support students to have intercultural awareness. From the results above the authors of English textbooks should put the more cultural information explicitly Indonesian cultural aspects to enrich students cultural information.
 
 Keyword: Indonesian Cultural Aspects, English Textbooks, Kemendikbud
Highlights
Culture is very important to learn and spread either by television or performance
This study aims to describe the cultural aspects in English textbooks of 2013 curriculum
The result shows that cultural Aspects in Three English Textbooks are presented by product, such as food, literary works, electronicts, buildings, travels (Bali Beach and Mahameru mountain), etc
Summary
Culture is very important to learn and spread either by television or performance. An enormous amount of intercultural sensitivity has risen in recent years. The need for developing intercultural awareness has gained tremendous attention. English has introduced some cultures such as source culture, target culture or international target culture (Silvia: 2014). These cultures are naturally embedded in the form of habits, foods, norms, values, general beliefs, or life styles. These are often found when learners learn culture through some media, such as television, newspaper, novel, book, or textbook (Yuen: 2011)
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