Multiculturalism on English Textbooks For First Grade Student at An Indonesian Senior High School

Abstract

This article describes the result of document analysis and depth in an interview with English language teachers toward existing Multicultural Indonesia on English textbook used by teachers at Indonesian Senior High School. By identifying and classifying document analysis; current National curriculum, standard competence, basic competence, and English textbooks published by National Education Department,  and elaborating from English language teachers’ perspective. Based on the data analysis, the researcher found that 1) the existing English textbooks used by English language teachers at an Indonesian Senior High School did not have a good proportion on Multicultural Indonesia. 2) Point of view from English language teachers showed that English language teachers' perspectives argue that English textbooks must be enclosed learning materials based on Multicultural Indonesia, 3) In line with language teachers’ perspective, most students believe that learning materials based on multicultural Indonesia have potential energy for them to generate their English achievement and teach them how respect, growth of tolerance, and mutual understanding among their classmates. Based on the result study above, it can be concluded that developing Multicultural Indonesia on English textbooks is urgent to be designed with multicultural approaches based on the Indonesian's context. Finally, by having a good understanding of Multicultural Indonesia, teachers and students are expected to be aware of the important role of Multicultural Indonesia to actively take part in maintaining the awareness of their own multicultural.