The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It

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 t...

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Gómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando
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2015
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Communicative textbooks
deep culture
EFL learners
intercultural communicative competence
surface culture
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spelling Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 InternacionalDerechos reservados - Universidad Nacional de Colombiahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Gómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando4ffe79f8-97b8-405f-8166-06e5ae0565ab3002019-07-03T03:10:41Z2019-07-03T03:10:41Z2015-07-01ISSN: 2256-5760https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66940http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67968/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.En este artículo se analiza el contenido cultural en tres textos de inglés comunicativo utilizados como el principal recurso de enseñanza en la clase de inglés. Se indagó si los textos incluyen elementos de la cultura superficial o de la cultura profunda. Se observó que los textos sólo presentan temas “admirables” y representativos de la cultura superficial y no ofrecen temas complejos y trasformativos de la cultura profunda. En consecuencia, en la segunda parte del artículo se sugiere a los profesores de inglés cómo abordar aspectos complejos de la cultura profunda que podrían ayudarle a los estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera a construir una competencia intercultural más sólida.application/pdfspaUniversidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogotá - Facultad de Ciencias Humanas - Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras - Grupo de Investigación PROFILEhttps://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/44272Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revistas electrónicas UN PROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional DevelopmentPROFILE Issues in Teachers' Professional DevelopmentGómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando (2015) The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It. Profile: Issues in Teachers´ Professional Development, 17 (2). pp. 167-187. ISSN 2256-576037 Educación / Education8 Literatura y retórica / LiteratureCommunicative textbooksdeep cultureEFL learnersintercultural communicative competencesurface cultureThe Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About ItArtículo de revistainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85Texthttp://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/ARTORIGINAL44272-250959-2-PB.pdfapplication/pdf277305https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/bitstream/unal/66940/1/44272-250959-2-PB.pdf1759ea6bff5eea88ead2dcaa650a19f3MD51THUMBNAIL44272-250959-2-PB.pdf.jpg44272-250959-2-PB.pdf.jpgGenerated Thumbnailimage/jpeg6785https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/bitstream/unal/66940/2/44272-250959-2-PB.pdf.jpg8f7f7bb9e0f97064a9ad8b4fed6a24c5MD52unal/66940oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/669402023-05-27 23:03:04.022Repositorio Institucional Universidad Nacional de Colombiarepositorio_nal@unal.edu.co
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37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Communicative textbooks
deep culture
EFL learners
intercultural communicative competence
surface culture
title_short The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It
title_full The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It
title_fullStr The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It
title_full_unstemmed The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It
title_sort The Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks and What Teachers Need to Do About It
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Gómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando
dc.contributor.author.spa.fl_str_mv Gómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando
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8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
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8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Communicative textbooks
deep culture
EFL learners
intercultural communicative competence
surface culture
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deep culture
EFL learners
intercultural communicative competence
surface culture
description 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.En este artículo se analiza el contenido cultural en tres textos de inglés comunicativo utilizados como el principal recurso de enseñanza en la clase de inglés. Se indagó si los textos incluyen elementos de la cultura superficial o de la cultura profunda. Se observó que los textos sólo presentan temas “admirables” y representativos de la cultura superficial y no ofrecen temas complejos y trasformativos de la cultura profunda. En consecuencia, en la segunda parte del artículo se sugiere a los profesores de inglés cómo abordar aspectos complejos de la cultura profunda que podrían ayudarle a los estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera a construir una competencia intercultural más sólida.
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