THE ANALYSIS ON CULTURE ELEMENT FOUND IN BSE (E-BOOK) CLASS XI OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOK

摘要

In English learning process, a teacher has a responsibility to maintain and develop students’ understanding on local culture, local values, and national identity. On the contrary, in order to get more comprehensive mastery of English such native comprehension, they have to expose themselves to the cultural aspects of the native language. This study aimed to (1) figure out the culture elements existed in the reading texts of BSE Class XI of Senior High School; and (2) to investigate the insertion of culture elements existed in reading texts of BSE Class XI of Senior High School.ududThis study was conducted by means of qualitative - descriptive design. It, moreover, employed the document analysis as approach to collect and analyze the data. In order to grasp the contextual meaning of the data, the approach proposed by Brown and Yule “local interpretation and analogy” was used. The object of this study was five reading texts of English Textbook BSE Class XI of Senior High School.ududBased on the findings of this study, it was found the dissemination of three culture elements, which are: ideas, behaviors, and products. The culture elements in form of ideas were more dominant (75%) compared to other two elements (22.5% and 2.5% respectively). Ideas culture embodying beliefs, values, and institutions were appropriate for the students XI grade whose reading capability has been perceived as intermediate level learners. Furthermore, the use of “local interpretation and analogy” as approach in this study would ease the students to more comprehend the text through the contextual meaning of ideas cultures such as: beliefs and values. The students are necessarily to grasp all values and meanings existed within the reading texts and thereby are required to more increase their curiosity in reading process and to enhance their interest in learning process.