چکیده

This study aimed at examining the presentation of the cultural elements in internationally-distributed ELT textbooks, namely, Top Notch series and locally- developed ELT textbooks, namely, Prospect series. To this end, Top Notch and Prospect series were quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed through content analysis in order to investigate the cultural elements included in these two series. Byram s cultural checklist (2003) was used to collect and categorize the cultural content of the textbooks. The results of the analysis showed that a major portion of the Prospect series including conversations and pictures contained one or more cultural elements. Moreover, from among the cultural elements, the category of socialization and life cycle ranked first among the eight categories of cultural elements and national history and national geography both came last in the cultural elements found in the Prospect series. In addition, conversations in this series were found to be more culturally loaded than pictures. As for Top Notch series, the category of social identity and social groups scored the first among the cultural elements and the category of national geography scored the last. In addition, a significant difference was observed between the two series of English language teaching materials in terms of the cultural elements represented in them. The findings of the current study can provide useful guidelines for teachers, students, and those who are involved in materials preparation.

کليدواژه ها

Culture, Material evaluation, Prospect series, Textbook evaluation, Top Notch series.

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