The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It
This article analyzes the cultural content in three communicative English as a foreign language textbooks that are used as main instructional resources in the English classroom. The study examined whether the textbooks include elements of surface or deep culture, and the findings indicate that the t...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2015-07-01
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| description | This article analyzes the cultural content in three communicative English as a foreign language textbooks that are used as main instructional resources in the English classroom. The study examined whether the textbooks include elements of surface or deep culture, and the findings indicate that the textbooks contain only static and congratulatory topics of surface culture and omit complex and transformative forms of culture. Consequently, the second part of the article suggests how teachers can address deep-rooted aspects of culture that might help English as a foreign language learners build more substantive intercultural competence in the language classroom. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-edd2d5e8b7f844d8bd49d7245790ba632025-08-20T02:21:41ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07901657-07902015-07-01172167187http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v17n2.44272The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About ItLuis Fernando Gómez Rodríguez0Universidad Pedagógica NacionalThis article analyzes the cultural content in three communicative English as a foreign language textbooks that are used as main instructional resources in the English classroom. The study examined whether the textbooks include elements of surface or deep culture, and the findings indicate that the textbooks contain only static and congratulatory topics of surface culture and omit complex and transformative forms of culture. Consequently, the second part of the article suggests how teachers can address deep-rooted aspects of culture that might help English as a foreign language learners build more substantive intercultural competence in the language classroom.http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/44272Communicative textbooksdeep cultureEFL learnersintercultural communicative competencesurface culture |
| spellingShingle | Luis Fernando Gómez Rodríguez The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development Communicative textbooks deep culture EFL learners intercultural communicative competence surface culture |
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