A Study of Cultural Aspects in Asian EFL English Teaching Materials
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This study investigates the content of cultural features in the books of high school in three EFL Asian countries based on a framework of Cortazzi and Jin (1999) and Kachru (1992). Accordingly, the visual materials of nine English textbooks at secondary schools in Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam were evaluated in terms of four cultural aspects: source, target, international, and universal. The content of textbooks was also categorized into four circles of English: inner circle, outer circle, expanding circle, and not-included feature. The results showed that contrary to the previous studies, though most of textbooks took diverse cultures into account, some textbooks clearly emphasized on more source and target culture rather than international and universal culture. In the analysis of target culture, the results are heavily skewed to USA culture. Seven boundaries of international culture demonstrate diverse distributions depending on the textbooks. In three circles of English, the most dominant feature is the inner circle in Korean textbooks and the expanding circle in Japanese and Vietnam textbooks.
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This study investigates the content of cultural features in the books of high school in three EFL Asian countries based on a framework of Cortazzi and Jin (1999) and Kachru (1992). Accordingly, the visual materials of nine English textbooks at secondary schools in Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam were evaluated in terms of four cultural aspects: source, target, international, and universal. The content of textbooks was also categorized into four circles of English: inner circle, outer circle, expanding circle, and not-included feature. The results showed that contrary to the previous studies, though most of textbooks took diverse cultures into account, some textbooks clearly emphasized on more source and target culture rather than international and universal culture. In the analysis of target culture, the results are heavily skewed to USA culture. Seven boundaries of international culture demonstrate diverse distributions depending on the textbooks. In three circles of English, the most dominant feature is the inner circle in Korean textbooks and the expanding circle in Japanese and Vietnam textbooks.
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