THE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CULTURE IN THE EIGHTH-GRADE TEXTBOOK “ENGLISH FOR NUSANTARA”
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English textbook, Dimension culture, Categories culture,Abstract
Learning a language involves more than mastering vocabulary and grammar, but the culture. It is important for student to understand cultural content. This is why learning media such as textbooks must properly incorporate cultural content. This research aims to investigate the dimension of cultural content and categories of cultural content are presented English textbook “English for Nusantara” for 8th grade Junior High School. To achieve goal, a descriptive qualitative design was used in this study to describe cultural dimensions and cultural categories. Five dimension of culture by Moran (2001) including products, practices, perspectives, communities and persons, and also categories of culture by Cortazzi & Jin (1999) including source culture, target culture, and international culture were used to analyze the data. The results found that the culture dimension is dominated by 42 products while the culture category is 70 dominated by source culture. The low content of cultural targets and international culture indicates limited exposure to global culture.
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