An Analysis Of Multicultural Values In Elt Textbook Endorsed By Indonesian Government

Abstract

The cultural appearance in the textbook is presented through visual and also textual artefacts. The cultures are presented differently as multicultural representation in the textbook. The students as the readers of the textbook are necessary to comprehend the Multicultural diversity by discovering the representation of multicultural values in the textbook. For this intention, this paper is purposed to analyze the representation of multicultural values that was embodied in textbook. This qualitative study was conducted by analyzing the senior high school students’ textbook, Buku Bahasa Inggris Untuk SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas X endorsed by Indonesian government that was published at 2017. This study adopted the research instrument of Baker (2012); and Hajisoteriou & Angelides (2016). There are two kinds of items as the artefacts in the textbook, it consist of visual artefact such as visual images and textual artefact it contain the tasks and texts. Otherwise, four components that were depicted visually and textually, it consist of ethnicity, religious, socio-economic, and geographical background. The ethnicity values presented by recognizing the diversity of physical appearance such as the name, skin colors and hair types. Furthermore, component of multicultural values such as socio-economic background is delineated throughout manners in social interaction across gender, age, occupations, and respecting the other personal capability. The other component is geographical background, it is demonstrated by concerning the representation of skin colour, hair type, name of person and the name of the place. Whereas, the religious component is delineated by regarding the personal appearance such as respecting the person who wears hijab and regarding the person who has muslim name. There 57 representation of multicultural values throughout the visual images in the book and 52 representation of multicultural values textually in the book. But additionally, the researcher identifies only five visual representation of muslims and two textual representation of muslims in the book. There is merely found the evidence of religion multicultural values and the researcher could not discover the representation of the other Indonesian religion values such as hindu, buddhist, confucian, protestant and catholic the book.