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The Cultural Content on English Textbook used by Second Grade of Junior
High School Students
Ika Aprilia Mulfianti
ABSTRACT
“EIL involves cross-cultural interactions among the users of English from the inner circle, the
outer circle and the expanding circle and hence these users of EIL are in constant touch with
each other’s varieties of English” (Canagarajah, 2006, p. 231). English as an International
Language (EIL) has become one of the current issue in language teaching. This study was
conducted to investigate the existence of cultural content in English textbook used by second
grade junior high school. The study analyzed an English textbook entitled English in Focus
which currently used by public junior high school in Indonesia. English in Focus was published
by Pusat Perbukuan Departemen Pendidikan Indonesia in 2008 and written by Wardiman, Jahur,
and Djusma (2008). The book was designed based on standard of KTSP 2006. This study
focused on analyzing the cultural contents in reading, listening and speaking texts. The data was
analyzed quantitatively and elaborated qualitatively. The result of this study revealed that
English in Focus tended to represent local culture. It was important to note that the two other
cultures were also being represented through the texts such as the English diversity and Western
culture.
Keywords: local culture, western culture, English as International Language (EIL),
English textbook.