Abstract

VARON PAEZ, Martha Elizabeth. CULTURAL COMPONENT, TEXTBOOKS AND TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2009, vol.22, n.1, pp.95-124. ISSN 0120-338X.

The main goals of this study are to explore, contrast and compare the explicit and implicit concepts and the theories about culture that have practical applications in textbooks for the teaching of English as a Foreign Languaje (EFL). We intend to analyze the activities designed to be developed in the EFL in secondary education. We establish dichotomous categories based on the theories and typologies that several authors have made around the cultural component in the curricula of foreign languaje teaching. Such typologies are used to analyze the cultural contents in the EFL textbooks. The corpus selected for this study corresponds to five textbooks used in Colombia by foreign editorials between 1997 and 2005 to teach EFL in primary, secondary and high school levels.

Keywords : english as a foreign language; school activities; english textbooks; culture; teaching culture; english teaching curricula.

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