Cross-Cultural Teaching Construction in Textbook for Foreign Language Learning

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.006How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Culture, cultural representations, Indonesian language for foreign learner, textbook

Abstract

The cultural aspect of learning a second/foreign language is directed at the introduction and cultural insight of the target language to learners so that they can use it as a background knowledge when they live in the target country/target language. Students are introduced to the target language culture in the form of cultural behaviour, cultural knowledge and cultural objects. This study investigates the cultural elements in Indonesian Language textbook used for junior high school following two major curriculum innovations in BIPA (Indonesian Language for Foreign Speaker). A total of 5 textbooks were investigated to find out the extent to which textbooks contain references to the source (Indonesia) culture, and the international target culture and based on BIPA curriculum in Indonesia. The present study is descriptive in design and is based on a quantitative analysis of the cultural elements. The overall results of the study indicate that textbook materials for Victoria state junior high school education are designed to foster learners’ familiarity with the source, target and international target culture simultaneously at every stage of the Indonesian language learning experience. Findings of the study also give insights to teachers as users of textbooks in informing them of different cultural elements and assisting them to integrate different sources of culture into their teaching practice to achieve inclusive teaching practices.

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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  - Ari Nursenja Rivanti
AU  - Vidi Sukmayadi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - Cross-Cultural Teaching Construction in Textbook for Foreign Language Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 38
EP  - 43
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.006
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.006
ID  - Rivanti2021
ER  -