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Secondly, the printed questionnaire is delivered by post mail to 42 MTs Negeri in DKI Jakarta. The format of the printed
survey is on Appendix 1. The printed questionnaire consists of three parts. The first part is the cover letter containing Letter of
Permission for Conducting Research, approved by the UIN Syarif Hidayatullah administrative staff and a personal letter from the
researcher. The second part is intended for the head of curriculum division in the school. And the third part contains the six statements
to be responded by one of the English teachers in the schools.
From both methods of survey, all 42 expected respondents were not completing the survey. There were only 22 responses in
online survey and only 4 replied printed surveys. From this preliminary online survey, these were six mostly used English
textbooks in DKI Jakarta region. Please see Appendix 3 for complete results.
Table 3.2 English Textbooks in MTS Negeri in DKI Jakarta by Survey
Title Frequency
English in Focus, 2008 11
English on Sky, 2007 8
Scaffolding, 2008 5
Real Time, 2008 3
Flying Start, 2007 3
Contextual Teaching and Learning, 2007 1
2. Interview
Interviews were conducted to crosscheck the data from the survey. They were conducted through telephone conversation with
English teachers within the same questions ―What are English
textbooks used in your district?‖ The researcher asks the same questions to Ketua MGMP MTs Negeri and Head of Curriculum
Affairs in each districts, namely: Jakarta Barat, Jakarta Selatan, Jakarta Pusat, Jakarta Utara and Jakarta Timur. It resulted these
five mostly used English textbooks See Appendix 2 and 4
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Table 3.3 English Textbooks in MTS Negeri in DKI Jakarta by Interview
Title
English in Focus, 2008 English on Sky, 2007
Flying Start, 2007 Scaffolding, 2008
Real Time, 2008
From these two sets of data, it was taken two series of English textbooks as the units of analysis, namely: English in Focus BSE
and English on Sky Erlangga. This decision is on the basis of equal
sample between
government-funded publisher and
commercial publisher. 3. Checklist worksheet
As the research is intended to analyze some aspects of cultures in English textbooks like: types of cultural information, cultural
types, cultural senses and cultural elements, two worksheets are constructed to answer the research questions number 1, 2, 3,
and 4.
For this need, the researchers used four frameworks: 1.
Types of cultural information Adaskou, Britten and Fahsi
2. Cultural types Cortazzi and Jin
3. Cultural senses Adaskou, Britten and Fahsi
4. Elements of culture Yuen
5. Level of intercultural communicative competence
Byram These frameworks, notions and examples are presented in
Appendix 1. These frameworks are then developed into worksheets as the
instrument of data collection about the culture aspects In what form the culture is presented? Which culture is presented? What
senses of culture are there? What elements of culture are there? in the selected English textbooks. For the detail of the instruments,
see Appendix 5.
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4. The Researcher
