Cultural Representation of English Materials in “EduMu” Application.

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Mustofa, Maria Ulfa (2020) Cultural Representation of English Materials in “EduMu” Application. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

In learning English, the integration of culture into English language teaching and learning, particularly ELT materials, is now becoming a new interest among linguists and scholars. Nowadays, cultural literacy is an important aspect that need to be embedded in the 21st century learning, so that the integration of culture into the English teaching learning process become more significant. Representation of the cultural content in EduMu application can build the awareness of people who involve in education field of the importance of culture in language teaching. This research aims to describe what are cultural representation of English materials in EduMu application. To answer this issue, the study used qualitative method by analyzing English materials used in EduMu application. The findings indicated that there are four dimensions of culture described in the materials used in EduMu application, namely products that refers to tangible objects, practices that refers to society’s behaviors, perspectives that refers to society’s ideas, and persons.