초등학교 5, 6학년 영어 교과서의 읽기 자료에 나타난 문화 연계 실태 및 문화 내용 분석

An analysis of the connections between reading materials and culture, and the cultural contents in the 5th and 6th grade English textbooks

This study aims to explore the connections between reading materials and culture, and the cultural contents in the 5th and 6th grade English textbooks. For this, 150 pieces of reading material in 10 English textbooks were analyzed based on three aspects: 1) whether the reading materials are connected with culture, 2) if so, how strongly the reading materials are tied to culture, 3) what cultural contents (topics, types, backgrounds) are suggested in the reading materials. The content analysis of the reading materials found that 66% (99 out of 150) of the reading materials were tied to culture with different degrees (weak, medium, strong). Specifically, 47.4% of the 99 reading materials turned out to have a weak connection with culture, whereas 23.2% had a medium connection and 29.2% had a strong connection. In addition, in terms of cultural contents suggested in the reading materials, topics about the daily lives of people from diverse cultural backgrounds were commonly dealt with in 78.1% of the reading material. For cultural types, material culture accounted for 45.8% of the reading materials, followed by spiritual and behavioral culture. Lastly, for cultural backgrounds, English culture was presented the most, followed by non-English and Korean culture. Based on the findings, some pedagogical implications were discussed.