An investigation into intercultural content in English textbooks which helps promote intercultural awareness

The research aimed at analyzing tasks and contents in “World English I” and “English for Communication” that contribute to students’ intercultural awareness. Moreover, these textbooks were compared to find which one contained more tasks and contents used to raise students’ intercultural awareness. The research framework was 12 features of intercultural awareness based on Baker’s framework (2012). The results of finding were analyzed into both the qualitative and quantitative data types.
The findings revealed that the “World English I” contained more intercultural contents than the “English for Communication”. The intercultural contents could be found in every unit of “World English I”; while “English for Communication” contained only one unit. “World English I” textbook presented 3 features of intercultural awareness. “English for Communication” textbook found two features of 12 features of intercultural awareness.