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A content analysis related to the cross-cultural/intercultural elements used in EFL coursebooks



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Kamile Hamiloğlu
Bahar Mendi

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2010.01.003

Department of Applied Linguistics and ELT, Faculty of Education, Marmara University, İstanbul 34722, Turkey;
School of Foreign Languages, Marmara University, İstanbul 34722, Turkey

This study aimed to examine some coursebooks of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to see whether they involve any cross-cultural topics belonging to different cultures from different countries in the world. Assuming that EFL coursebooks written after the communicative movements in foreign language teaching and learning in the 1970s and the 1980s would have a plenty of cross-cultural elements, it was expected to see these coursebooks would also have a lot of cross-cultural elements, especially regarding their publication dates. This study aimed to investigate to what extent teaching materials used in EFL setting involve intercultural elements. Accordingly, 5 coursebooks were evaluated, and topics and number of cross-cultural elements were presented. The coursebooks used in the study were published in 1998, 1999, 1999, 2001 and 2006 namely. However, as the results displayed, the frequency of cross-cultural elements were not mutually related to their publication dates. The distribution and frequency of cross-cultural elements were not balanced with the dates chronologically.

English as a Foreign Language (EFL); Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC); coursebooks; cross-cultural elements