An Analysis Of Multicultural Values In Elt Textbook Endorsed By Indonesian Government
Abstract
The cultural appearance in the textbook is presented through visual and
also textual artefacts. The cultures are presented differently as multicultural
representation in the textbook. The students as the readers of the textbook are
necessary to comprehend the Multicultural diversity by discovering the
representation of multicultural values in the textbook. For this intention, this paper
is purposed to analyze the representation of multicultural values that was embodied
in textbook. This qualitative study was conducted by analyzing the senior high
school students’ textbook, Buku Bahasa Inggris Untuk SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas
X endorsed by Indonesian government that was published at 2017. This study
adopted the research instrument of Baker (2012); and Hajisoteriou & Angelides
(2016). There are two kinds of items as the artefacts in the textbook, it consist of
visual artefact such as visual images and textual artefact it contain the tasks and
texts. Otherwise, four components that were depicted visually and textually, it
consist of ethnicity, religious, socio-economic, and geographical background. The
ethnicity values presented by recognizing the diversity of physical appearance such
as the name, skin colors and hair types. Furthermore, component of multicultural
values such as socio-economic background is delineated throughout manners in
social interaction across gender, age, occupations, and respecting the other personal
capability. The other component is geographical background, it is demonstrated by
concerning the representation of skin colour, hair type, name of person and the
name of the place. Whereas, the religious component is delineated by regarding the
personal appearance such as respecting the person who wears hijab and regarding
the person who has muslim name. There 57 representation of multicultural values
throughout the visual images in the book and 52 representation of multicultural
values textually in the book. But additionally, the researcher identifies only five
visual representation of muslims and two textual representation of muslims in the
book. There is merely found the evidence of religion multicultural values and the
researcher could not discover the representation of the other Indonesian religion
values such as hindu, buddhist, confucian, protestant and catholic the book.