Foreign Culture Awareness in the Algerian Teaching Manuals: Investigating Culture Bound Texts with Reference toThird Year Textbook of English (New Prospects)

Abstract

This study is to investigate culture-bound teaching material in EFL classrooms.More precisely, in the Algerian secondary schools and to get an overview concerning the teachers’ consciousness about this matter. It also analyzes the effective ways and instruments that should be used by teachers and all practitioners in the teaching-learning field to enhance and facilitate the learning process in the English context. It also seeks to find out the possible obstacles faced in learning and teaching the target culture. For conducting this research, the method used is based on a questionnaire administered to both 30 secondary school teachers and third year secondary school learners to obtain their attitudes about the contents of Algerian text-books designed for teaching English, and a textbook evaluation to know if the English culture is implemented in third year textbook of English (New Prospects). The findings reveal that there is a total absence of the implementation of English culture in the Algerian manuals designed for secondary education programmes.