The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It
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| author | Luis Fernando Gómez Rodríguez |
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| contents | The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It Luis Fernando Gómez Rodríguez Educación deep culture EFL learners surface culture Communicative textbooks intercultural communicative competence This article analyzes the cultural content in three communicative English as a foreign language textbooks that are used as main instructional resources in the English classroom. The study examined whether the textbooks include elements of surface or deep culture, and the findings indicate that the textbooks contain only static and congratulatory topics of surface culture and omit complex and transformative forms of culture. Consequently, the second part of the article suggests how teachers can address deep-rooted aspects of culture that might help English as a foreign language learners build more substantive intercultural competence in the language classroom. 2015 artículo científico 1657-0790 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=169239786012 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1692 Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Colombia Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development (Colombia) Num.2 Vol.17 |
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| spellingShingle | The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It Luis Fernando Gómez Rodríguez Educación deep culture EFL learners surface culture Communicative textbooks intercultural communicative competence The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It Luis Fernando Gómez Rodríguez Educación deep culture EFL learners surface culture Communicative textbooks intercultural communicative competence This article analyzes the cultural content in three communicative English as a foreign language textbooks that are used as main instructional resources in the English classroom. The study examined whether the textbooks include elements of surface or deep culture, and the findings indicate that the textbooks contain only static and congratulatory topics of surface culture and omit complex and transformative forms of culture. Consequently, the second part of the article suggests how teachers can address deep-rooted aspects of culture that might help English as a foreign language learners build more substantive intercultural competence in the language classroom. 2015 artículo científico 1657-0790 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=169239786012 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1692 Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Colombia Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development (Colombia) Num.2 Vol.17 |
| title | The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It |
| topic | Educación deep culture EFL learners surface culture Communicative textbooks intercultural communicative competence |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=169239786012 |