Cultural Content Analysis of English Textbooks for Senior High School Grade XI.

Abstract

Culture and language are closely intertwined; in order to master a language we must become familiar to its culture as well, therefore, incorporating cultural content into them is crucial. But this matter seems to have been neglected by teachers when choosing English textbook since there are many sources of English textbook nowadays. For this reason, the purpose of this study is to determine the types of culture and to determine the representation of culture in terms of four senses of culture in Bahasa Inggris XI and Bupena English for SMA/MA Grade XI. In this study, the data were collected using two adapted checklists designed by Najmiatul Fauza (2018) and Ibnu Mustofa (2019). The findings revealed that in Bahasa Inggris XI target culture was presented predominantly and in the other book the most presented type of culture is source culture. This implies that the target culture is more exposed in Bahasa Inggris for Grade XI, whereas the source culture is more exposed in the other book. Regarding the representation of culture in term of four senses of culture, Bupena English for SMA/MA Grade XI placed a greater emphasis on the representation of pragmatics sense, meanwhile Bahasa Inggris XI focused more on sociological sense. Similiary, neither of the English textbooks had any representation of the semantic sense. Finally, English textbooks should give more culturally diverse content; each type of culture, each type of sense should be equally represented so that students are aware of the existence of other cultures, which will aid them in mastering the leanguage. Keywords: English textbook, cultural content, four senses of culture, types of culture, content analysis.