When Content and Culture Attack Strike

A Teacher’s Perspective on the Use of Textbook

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.037How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cultural issue, teacher’s perspective, textbook content

Abstract

A textbook is considered as one of the important components to the teaching and learning program specifically in the English as Foreign Language (EFL) setting. The textbook not only becomes a framework for the teacher in achieving the aim and objectives of the learning but also serves as guidance in conducting lessons. To this, the teacher has an important role in the process of textbook selection and evaluation. Thus, the study is aimed at investigating the use of textbooks from the teacher’s perspective. CAN DO series are imported textbooks used by the teacher being investigated. As imported textbooks may include the author’s culture, it is worth analysing the content and cultural issues portrayed in the textbook. The qualitative approach under the descriptive research method was used in this study with adaption frameworks from Sheldon, Mukundan, and Mohamed applied to evaluate textbooks from the teacher’s perspective. The study revealed that the textbook comprised marvellous content to cover what it takes to stimulate and to provide students with the nature of English spoken and written. Yet, as the school upholds Islamic values, some of the contents that are influenced by western cultures are quite contradictive with the school’s values. To this, the teacher conveyed that he helped students to be aware of these differences after learning the unique cultures presented in the textbook. The different value that was shared between the school and the textbook has led the teacher to consider whether he modified or passed the cultural elements that provided in the textbook.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ismiati Purwaningsih Subiana
AU  - Yanty Wirza
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - When Content and Culture Attack Strike
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 245
EP  - 252
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.037
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.037
ID  - Subiana2021
ER  -