The Representation of Culture in English Reading Passages of Senior High School National Examination in Indonesia

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10.2991/icems-17.2018.14How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cultural content, target culture, source culture, international culture, cultural criteria, cultural element, reading passage, national examination

Abstract

Culture has become one of the concerned issues in the field of language testing and evaluation. Therefore, this paper attempts to identify different cultures contained on test items, particularly whether the Indonesian culture is sufficiently represented. Qualitative method using a content analysis design is employed in the paper and the materials of the English national exam of the past three academic years are used as the data source. The rubrics of cultural types (source culture, target culture, and international culture) developed by Cortazzi and Jin (1999) are used to analyze the data. The findings reveal that the Indonesian cultures as the source culture are far less exposed compared to the target cultures, at 17 % and 46% respectively. Quite similar to the representation of the source cultures, the international cultures stand as the second highest percentage, at 20%. Thus, an imbalanced proportion of cultural representation in the test items is clearly observed, which implies the urgent need to establish a policy requiring the development of proportional cultural representation.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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  - Siti Nurul Azkiyah
AU  - Dede Puji Setiono
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - The Representation of Culture in English Reading Passages of Senior High School National Examination in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education in Muslim Society (ICEMS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 66
EP  - 71
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icems-17.2018.14
DO  - 10.2991/icems-17.2018.14
ID  - NurulAzkiyah2017/10
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