Abstract: Language and culture are two crucial factors in building any civilization; they undoubtedly work alongside and have influenced each other for generations. This study aims to measure to what extents do the ELT textbooks applied in Libya reflect the cultural references; native culture, target culture, international culture, and culture free. It also observes the cultural categories that have had the most emphasis and subdivided into subcategories highlighted afterwards. In order to achieve this, this research makes a comparison between the ELT textbooks conducted in Libya and selected two different textbooks belong to different series to collect the necessary data, the first one is the Second Preparatory English textbook out of the ELT series English for Libya which are applied for the 8th grades in the Libyan public schools. Whereas the second textbook is the first level of the Face2Face Starter series which is Face2Face Starter and it is published by the Cambridge University Press and applied by the language teaching institutions in Libya. In order to analyse the cultural content in the textbooks, the study used the model prepared by Ramirez and Hall (1999:53). The research ends up with many interesting findings that are clarified the dominance of the native culture, a humble presence of the international and free culture, in addition to a poor existence for the target culture. Out of the percentages of the cultural categories and subcategories, the study shows the Libyan textbooks’ high interest in the Social, Personal, and Environmental categories at the expense of Political and Religion categories. Whereas the international version of ELT textbook Face2Face tend to focus on all these categories evenly and in a balanced way except the Religion category which show less attendance in general.
Keywords: native culture; target culture; international culture; cultural categories; cultural references.
Title: CULTURAL CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE ELT TEXTBOOKS IN LIBYA
Author: İman Ramazanoğlu, Dr.Öğr.Üyesi Eyyüp YAŞAR KÜRÜM
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Vol. 10, Issue 3, July 2022 - September 2022
Page No: 76-82
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Published Date: 15-July-2022
Amendment Date: 21-July-2022
