The Representation of World Englishes and Cultural Themes in Senior High School English Textbooks in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.060How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cultural theme, English textbooks, World Englishes

Abstract

The existence of different varieties of English around the world and frequent contact among the speakers of these varieties have significant implication particularly for raising cultural awareness in order to be successful in intercultural communication. This study investigates the depiction of variaties of English from Inner, Outer and Expanding Circle countries and cultural themes in three Senior High School English Textbooks used in Indonesia. It adopted qualitative approach in which the data were collected using document analysis and analyzed using content analysis based on Kachru’s Concentric Circle paradigm and Prifster and Borzilleri’s culture theme categories. The three textbooks analysed in this study are published by Indonesian publishers consisting of Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, Yrama Widya and ESPS Erlangga. The results of this study showed that all the three textbooks had already presented the varieties of English from Inner, Outer and Expanding circle. In terms of culture theme, the environmental and art cultural themes were the most frequent themes occurred in the three textbooks, as compared to the other cultural themes: personal, social, religion, arts/humanities, political systems and institutions, and environment. The findings of the current study can provide an insight to the local publishers in Indonesia particularly with regards to the choice of materials to ensure the balance proportion between the three Circles and six Culture themes.

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© 2021, 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  - Nur Jannah Ismi Wakhidah
AU  - Hepy Adityarini
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - The Representation of World Englishes and Cultural Themes in Senior High School English Textbooks in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 393
EP  - 400
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.060
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.060
ID  - Wakhidah2021
ER  -