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| Title: | 進口美語教科書文化內涵分析及探討
A Cultural Content Evaluation on a Series of Imported English Textbooks |
| Authors: | 于鈴玉
Yu, Ling-Yu |
| Contributors: | 余明忠
Yu, Ming-Chung
于鈴玉
Yu, Ling-Yu |
| Keywords: | 文化
英文教科書
進口美語教科書
兒美教科書
Culture
Imported English textbooks |
| Date: | 2021 |
| Issue Date: | 2022-02-10 13:19:01 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | 根據十二年國民基本教育課程綱要，學生的文化理解能力是英語教學應培養的要素之一，而許多英語教學都是以教科書為主要課程。既有文獻大多探討在地出版社所出版的教材，但對國外出版社之教材其研究則相對缺乏。本文探討補習班所使用的進口兒美教材。本研究旨在分析補習班兒美教材Let’s Go其文化內容的分布。採內容分析法進行資料分析，評量之依據為趙子嘉(2011)的文化種類及十二年國民基本教育課程綱要(2014)。
本研究結果顯示：在文化種類部分，無特定文化占比84.83%為最多。跨文化占比0.49%為最少。在課綱部分，關於文化理解的學習表現能力培養，Let’s Go 1-3冊比例最高的是「國內外基本的招呼方式」；Let’s Go 4-6冊中最高的是「能了解外國風土名情」。值得注意的是，一到六冊中完全沒有包含課綱所提及的「國內外主要節慶習俗」。
本研究建議編者應該納入民俗慶典相關被忽略的文化元素在新編教科書中，並且採用更多真實案例。期盼藉此鼓勵教師更加注重文化方面的教學。培育具備文化涵養的語言使用者應該成為語言教學的一項具體目標。
According to Taiwan’s 12-Year Basic Education curriculum guidelines, (1) teachers should foster cultural understanding in their English teaching and (2) textbooks should form the basis of many English programs. Although locally published textbooks have been extensively investigated, imported textbooks have remained relatively unexplored. In This study, the imported textbooks used in English cram schools in Taiwan were evaluated. The study investigated the distributions of content related to cultural understanding in the six volumes of Let’s Go. Content analysis was conducted using two coding schemes: Chao’s (2011) Main Categories of Culture and the Taiwan Ministry of Education’s (2014) General Curriculum Guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education.
The results revealed that the universality across culture (UC) content was predominant in the target textbooks, accounting for 84.83% of the content coded as related to cultural understanding. Only 0.49% of the content in the textbooks was coded as pertaining to intercultural interaction (ICI), the smallest proportion of all the categories. In terms of the cultural competence indicators, the ability to understand basic local and foreign greetings was the main focus in Volumes 1–3. In Volumes 4–6, content related to understanding foreign customs and traditions displaced greetings as the most common content. Notably, the six volumes contained no cultural content related to local or foreign festivals and customs.
The findings of this study suggest that the editors of foreign-published textbooks such as Let’s Go should include previously neglected discussions of customs and festivals in new textbooks and favor authentic content. Additionally, they should endeavor to motivate teachers to place greater emphasis on teaching cross-cultural understanding. Cultivating culturally literate language users should be an objective of language teaching. |
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國立政治大學
英語教學碩士在職專班
104951014 |
| Source URI: | http://thesis.lib.nccu.edu.tw/record/#G0104951014 |
| Data Type: | thesis |
| DOI: | 10.6814/NCCU202200124 |
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