Culture integration in english language teaching at seventh grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Surabaya academic year 2016-2017

摘要

Culture and language are two terms that cannot be separated. This research focuses on culture integration in English Language Teaching at 7-A students of SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 4 Surabaya. It also focuses on the students’ perception dealing with culture integration. Culture integration here means, using seven activities in English class especially. Seven activities that included on culture integration are authentic materials, proverbs, role play, culture capsules, ethnographic studies, literature, and film. It is required for the English teacher to integrate the culture into teaching and learning process within classroom. Moreover, teaching and learning process that include culture .makes English classroom more interesting. This research uses qualitative method. Researcher uses classroom observation and interview to get the data. The researcher also analyses the lesson plan of English teacher. Researcher do six meeting observation within the classroom, researcher analyses ten lesson plans of English teacher. Researcher do the interview by doing Focus Group Discussion, there are four groups that is interviewed by researcher. As the results, it finds that picture is the media that used by teacher more frequently than another media as culture integration. Furthermore, 7-A students have positive perception in the using of film, and negative perception in the using biography.