A CULTURAL CONTENT ANALYSIS OF AN ENGLISH COURSEBOOK “ADVANCED LEARNING ENGLISH 1” FOR GRADE X SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
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- Culture in general level is referred as the way of people accepted, respected, preserve, and trust something thus still continue to exist especially on how people express their thought by using their language that populate in the same area or country. This article presents the result of the investigation on cultural content of an English Coursebook “Advance Learning English 1” for Grade X Senior High School General Programme by Benyamin (2010). The data of the study were collected from the materials that were available in each unit from the English coursebook. The cultural contents are categorized into the Categories of Culture framework by Cortazzi & Jin (1999) to discover what cultures are represented in the coursebook. Then, the cultural contents are categorized into the four sense of culture framework by Adaskou, Britten & Fahsi (1990) to reveal how the cultures are represented in the coursebook in terms of Four Sense of Culture. Moreover, the cultural contents are categorized into the sixteen cultural themes under big “C” and little “c” of culture (Xiao, 2010) to reveal how the cultures are represented in terms of Themes under Big “C” and little “c” of culture. There are 41.49% of the target culture, 29.46% of the source culture, and 29.05% of the international culture. The cultures are represented by the aesthetic sense (51.04%), the sociological sense (26.14%), the pragmatic sense (15.35%) and the semantic sense (7.47%). In terms of themes under Big “C” and little “c” culture, the “Literature/Art” theme (51.45%) is dominant. In brief, the target culture dominantly represented in the coursebook, and then the cultures are mostly represented by the aesthetic sense and by the “Literature/Art” theme.