The Cultural Content in An English Textbook Used by Junior High School Entitled “BRIGHT An English Course for Junior High School students”

Textbooks have an important role in English teaching and learning process. Culture is an important material in English textbook, because language and culture are related to each other. Some of English textbook such as English on sky used by teachers in Junior High School exposed more target cultures than local cultures. In Indonesian educational system, the changed of curriculum are very frequent, and the textbook also must be revised, including English textbook. Every book must have some advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, the writer is interested to analyze the new revision of English textbook in kurikulum 2013. Hence, this study was conducted to analyze the categories of culture presented on English textbook entitled BRIGHT used by student of grade IX and to find out the categories of dominant cultures in English textbook entitled BRIGHT used by student of grade IX. The textbook was published by Erlangga in 2015 and designed based on the standard of Kurikulum 2013. Content analysis was employed by using observation sheet. This research was conducted by using qualitative design, particularly content analysis of textbooks. However, it also employed the element of quantitative in the form of the way the data were recorded into percentages. The result of this study revealed that BRIGHT tended to present source culture. It was important to note that the three other cultures were also being represented through the texts and pictures such as global culture, international culture and target culture. The culture presented in the textbook was dominated by source culture (50%), followed by global culture (37%), international culture (8%), and target culture (5%).