CULTURE REPRESENTATION IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK: CONTENT ANALYSIS OF TEXTBOOK BAHASA INGGRIS FOR GRADE X SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Dita, Safira Aulia Rahmawati (2020) CULTURE REPRESENTATION IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK: CONTENT ANALYSIS OF TEXTBOOK BAHASA INGGRIS FOR GRADE X SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Skripsi thesis, IAIN Purwokerto.

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Abstract

In learning a language, especially English, learners need to understand the culture of the language to avoid language shock and culture shock. Besides, learning culture also gives a broaden overview of language learned. The languages and its cultures can be learned through class activities and learning sources like textbooks. One textbook that provide cultural elements is textbook Bahasa Inggris for grade X Senior High School published by the Ministry of Education and Culture. The purpose of this research is to find out the cultural categories and its representations in cultural dimension in textbook Bahasa Inggris for grade X Senior High School. This is a content analysis research that apply a mixed method as the approach. The data of this research were collected through documentary analysis. The data were analyzed by unitizing, reducing data, recording/coding, inferring, and narrating process. This research get two points as the result. Firstly, the cultural categories are founded fully in the textbook, but in imbalance proportion. Source culture is the highest presentation with 40%. The second place, universality across culture in 34%. The target culture becomes the third place with 14%. The next is international culture with 8% and the last is intercultural interaction with only 4%. It shows the domination of source culture category and lack of intercultural interaction category. Secondly, the representation of cultural categories in cultural dimensions also have variations. Five dimensions of culture (products, practices, perspectives, communities, and persons) represent fully in the source culture, international culture, and universality across culture. While target culture and intercultural interaction not shows communities dimension in the textbook. The form of representations in the textbooks are through simple forms indicated in words, sentences, paragraphs, texts, dialogues, pictures, song lyrics, and quotations. Keywords: Textbook, Cultural Category, and Cultural Dimension

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