A Content Analysis of Cultural Aspects of English on sky 3 Textbook

Language and culture are inseparable and bound to each other. Cultural content analysis often presents in language learning textbook. This research was a content analysis of cultural aspects of English on Sky 3 used by Junior High School student. This research aims to find out how cultural information is represented, and what cultures are represented in the textbook. This study used descriptive qualitative method especially content analysis to analyze the textbook. This study adopted two frameworks from Adaskou, Britten, and Fahsi to reveal about cultural information, and framework from Cortazzi and Jin to reveal about types of culture. The analysis of textbook has revealed some major findings. This study finds that the textbook portrays cultures mainly in the form of visual illustrations. On the other hands, other types of cultural infomation, such as descriptive texts, idioms and collocations, and texts presenting foreign opinions are minimally found. Subsequently, source culture, target culture, and international target culture are found in a balance proportion where the target culture (51%) is more dominant that source culture (42%) and international target culture (7%)