An Analysis of Culture Values in The English Textbook Entitled “When English Rings A Bell” for Eight Grade Student of Junior High School

Mufidati, Afifah (2021) An Analysis of Culture Values in The English Textbook Entitled “When English Rings A Bell” for Eight Grade Student of Junior High School. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Keyword: English textbook, culture values Since English is learnt by many people around the world, culture should be included in the materials of textbook to help learners become more aware of different cultures to promote cultural understanding. Moreover, being communicatively competent may require learners to understand the cultures. Teacher also could encourage student to speak English by that kind of method. Thus, the purpose of this research is to explore culture values in English textbook entitled “When English Rings A Bell” and which one dominates the materials. The formulation of the research problem are: 1) What are the culture values represented in the English Textbook entitled “When English Rings A Bell” for eighth grade students of junior high school? 2) How do the writers integrate culture values in the English textbook entitled “When English Rings A Bell” for eighth grade students of junior high school?. The objectives of this research were: 1) To explore the culture values represented in the English Textbook entitled “When English Rings A Bell” for eighth grade students of junior high school. 2) To explain how the writers integrated culture values in the English Textbook entitled “When English Rings A Bell” for eighth grade students of junior high school. To answer those research questions, this research explored qualitative as the approach in analyzing culture values in English Textbook. Document analysis was used in collecting the data. The data used in this textbook were dialogues. This research used triangulation of investigators as the validity of the data. After analyzing the data, the research findings were: 1) There were six culture values represented in the English Textbook entitled “When English Rings A Bell”. The culture values were social identity and social groups, social interaction, belief and behavior, socialization and life cycles, national history, and national cultural heritage. 2) The writers technique integrated the culture values by using implicit and explicit. The result showed that the most dominant data presented into implicit technique. It was represented 45 (forty five) times. Besides, explicit technique were presented 35 (thirty five) time.

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