| dc.description.abstract | Cultural stereotypes in English Language Teaching (ELT) may influence
how students shape their perspectives towards the culture being stereotyped, yet
little research discusses how cultural stereotypes emerge in ELT textbooks. This
study aimed to investigate the inclusion of cultural stereotyping in English as a
foreign language (EFL) textbook published by the Indonesian government. The
book being analyzed was entitled English for Nusantara SMP/MTs KELAS VII for
the seventh grade of junior high school. The data were collected and analyzed
through content analysis to point out the valid inference. The findings showed that
cultural stereotypes were depicted in the textbook in several ways: appearance,
gender, behavior, and lifestyle. This study will provide an insight on how cultural
stereotypes are depicted in the textbook, and it may contribute practically for
textbook designers or material developers to take into account how cultural values
will be included into textbook in order to avoid creating stereotypes in a particular
culture. Furthermore, this study could also help the teachers to consider in choosing
and teaching the materials that are contained in the textbook. | en_US |
