IMPLICATION FOR CLASSROOM PRACTICES Sample Clauses

IMPLICATION FOR CLASSROOM PRACTICES. Since the textbook infused four main cultural values, it integrated little cultural information in compliance with the Indonesian current curriculum. Additionally, this research also contributed globally to EFL contexts in which an English textbook is indeed crucial in language classroom, but the cultural information should be developed, not limited only to what the textbook provides. As the textbook is the main source of language teaching used by teachers, not limited to the Indonesian teachers, teachers are required to integrate the local culture with the target culture during the teaching process to avoid skeptical opinions toward one culture. Moreover, teachers need to adapt the learning materials and conduct an in-depth discussion concerning different values of various cultures emphasizing more on their local culture as the selected textbooks tend to have American and British English norms only. Therefore, teachers have to enrich the material delivered to the students by collecting different materials from many other sources and integrating the local culture information into the target language learning. It is expected that students will have a good cross culture understanding and be more tolerant in the societal context. Infusing the local culture into the language teaching and learning process would be a good alternative instead of relying only on the sole material where the cultural information exposed belongs to the target cultures and values more. Therefore, teachers should be aware that a learning material (textbook) with various cultural contents or values in it may hinder the students’ own norms as well as embracing their own cultures.