Cultural Content: An Analysis of English as a Foreign Language Junior High School Textbook in Indonesian Curriculum.

Rahmannia, Mia and Triyono, Sulis (2020) Cultural Content: An Analysis of English as a Foreign Language Junior High School Textbook in Indonesian Curriculum. S2 thesis, Program Pascasarjana.

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Abstract

This study aims to reveal: (1) the media of cultural information presentation presented in English textbook; (2) The elements of culture presented in the English textbooks; (3) The intercultural communicative competence (ICC) presented in the classrooms by English teacher and students in SMPN 5 and SMPN 8 Yogyakarta. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with document analysis techniques. The subjects are English textbooks entitled BRIGHT 1: An English Course for Junior High School Students published by Erlangga Publisher and Bahasa Inggris SMP/MTs VII Semesters 1 & 2 published by Intan Pariwara Publisher, and the object is all the material related to the culture content in both textbooks. The researcher used these English textbooks as the main data which focus on the materials presented. For the second data, this research used document transcription of interview and observation in English classroom SMPN 5 and SMPN 8 Yogyakarta. The data were collected through document review, observation, and interview. The data collection instruments include the researcher as human instrument assisted by data cards, observation sheet, and interview guide. Thus, there are three types of research instruments used in this study which include; (1) instrument for English textbooks from media of cultural information presentation and elements theory; (2) observation sheet from intercultural communication competence (ICC) theory; (3) interview questions from the role of culture in English classroom theory. The data analysis followed the steps of perusing, check-listing, classifying, coding, tabulating, and interpreting. The data validity was achieved through expert judgment, peer review, and triangulation. The result of this research are as follows: (1) The media of cultural information presentation in EFL textbook BRIGHT 1: An English Course for Junior High School Students and Bahasa Inggris untuk SMP/MTs Kelas VII Semesters 1 & 2 are presented through descriptive text, cultural notes, dialogues for habitual action, contextualized writing task, idioms and collocation, realia, sound recording; but mostly supported by visual illustration; (2) The elements of culture presented in the textbooks include social organization, customs and traditions, religion, language, arts and literature, forms of government, and economic system; (3) The intercultural communicative competence (ICC) which occurs in the English classrooms covers knowledge, skill, and attitude involving factual knowledge related to the national or ethnic culture, and verbal communication strategy where students or teacher mixed their language to interact and explain something with their interlocutor/s, body language to confirm their agreement or disagreement related to the English learning, correcting friends’ mispronunciation, etc.

Item Type: Thesis (S2)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Media of Cultural Information Presentation, Elements of Culture, Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC), EFL Textbooks, Junior High School
Subjects: Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions: Sekolah Pascasarjana (SPS) > Program Pascasarjana > Linguistik Terapan
Depositing User: Perpustakaan Pascasarjana
Date Deposited: 07 Apr 2021 07:10
Last Modified: 07 Apr 2021 07:10
URI: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/70380

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