Cultural Content Analysis Of An English Textbook For "Bahasa Inggris (Kemendikbud) For Senior High Scool Grade XII 2018 Revised"

Culture and language have interconnected relationships with each other. Being an effective material in teaching students to get to know the culture deeper. This study explores cultural content from Class XII's English Textbook entitled "Cultural Content Analysis of an English Textbook for" English (Kemendikbud) for Senior High School Grade XII 2018 Revised ". Research data is collected from analyzing and reading sections in textbooks such as dialogues, conversations, pictures, grammar reviews, vocabulary and others. This study aims to investigate what culture is represented and how culture is represented in textbooks. This research uses descriptive qualitative method in analyzing textbooks. This study uses two frameworks from (Cortazzi and Jin, 1999) about culture and a framework from (Adaskou, Britten and Fahsi, 1990) about the meaning of culture. This textbook analysis found several findings. First, this textbook is predominantly presented through Target Culture compared to Source Culture and International Culture. The investigation found that (63.55%) cultural content refers to the Target Culture, (33.64%) refers to Source Culture, and the least is (2.80%) refers to International Culture. Second, Regarding how culture is represented in this textbook, culture is more dominantly represented by Pragmatic Sense (47.66%), compared to Aesthetic Sense (20.56%), Sociological Sense (24.29%) and Semantic Sense (7.47%). Based on these findings it is recommended to include more source culture and also more broadly about international culture