ANALYSIS OF CULTURE VALUES IN THE ENGLISH TEXTBOOK AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMK TARUNA INDONESIA JAMBI

The aim of this study was to investigate the culture values represented in an English textbook provided by the Ministry of Education and Culture in terms of the type of culture values represented. This is a qualitative research, the data were collected in the form of the reading passages in the textbook. The illustrations that accompany the text analyzed if it assists the interpretation of the meaning to collect data and data analysis in this research was descriptive analysis in order to reveal what cultures values are represented in the textbook, the contents in the reading passages were categorized into the source culture, the target culture, the international culture The result of the study showed that the reading texts in the English textbook entitled English for SMK was published by Yudistira are predicted to be quite easy from 6 reading texts get the average each score is 48% source culture materials, 35% target culture materials and 17% international target culture materials. The textbook did not much tells about the culture where from six texts only four texts have told about the culture, but the texts made students are able to read them. They can understand the texts. Therefore, this textbook is suitable to the students as reading material because the texts are good for practice reading comprehension