The Evaluation of the Cultural Content in EFL Textbooks: A Case Study of the 2nd Year Middle School Textbook “My Book of English”
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2023
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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Learning a foreign language entails more than just memorizing words. To what matters that you are familiar with the foreign values, norms, way of life, history, and social background. Hence, it is essential to remember that there is no language without culture and there is no culture without language. The aim of this study is to explore and evaluate the cultural content in the Algerian English textbooks used in the Middle School. The current research is an attempt to analyze “My Book of English. Year-Two” one o the “Second generation” course book introduced in 2017 at the Algerian Middle School level, to see to what extent it incorporates the necessary ingredients for intercultural teaching/ learning to take place. The analysis revealed that the textbook showed the others culture, through their food, famous places, clothes. Accordingly, the incorporation of these cultural aspects in textbooks leads pupils to compare between the first culture and the target one.