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A Content Analysis of the Cultural Content in the EFL Textbooks

2010; Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture; Volume: 6; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Francês

10.3968/j.css.1923669720100605.016

1923-6697

Juan Wu,

Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Intercultural communicative competence has been widely accepted as the aim of EFL teaching. In order to obtain this competence, Culture teaching must be implemented in the college English teaching. Textbooks have played a very important role in the course of teaching and learning. Textbooks introduce students the cultures of different countries and regions, thus making it convenient for students to exert a relatively remarkable influence on the fostering of students’ cultural awareness and competence of intercultural communication. This paper focuses on the content analysis of the cultural content in College English (New) (henceforth, CE (New)). Key Words: College English (New); content analysis; textbook evaluation Resume: La competence de communication interculturelle a ete largement acceptee comme le but de l'enseignement de l'anglais. Afin d'obtenir cette competence, l'enseignement culturel doit etre applique dans l'enseignement de l'anglais dans les colleges. Les manuels ont joue un role tres important dans le cadre de l'enseignement et de l'apprentissage. Les manuels initient les etudiants aux cultures de differents pays et regions et exercent une influence relativement remarquable sur la sensibilisation culturelle et les competences de communication interculturelle des eleves. Le present article se concentre sur l'analyse du contenu des contenus culturels dans les manuel de l'anglais aux colleges (Nouveau) (desormais, on utilise AC (nouveau) pour designer l'anglais de college).Mots-cles: anglais de college (nouveau); analyse du contenu; evaluation des manuels scolaires