Evaluation Of Chinese Cultural Aphasia Based On Intercultural Awareness Reflected In The Reading Materials Of Higher Vocational English Textbook
Keywords:
Chinese Cultural Aphasia, Intercultural Awareness, Higher vocational English TextbookAbstract
“Chinese cultural aphasia” in English education has been emphasized in China in the recent years. Evaluation of Chinese cultural aphasia in higher vocational English textbook in this research will be implemented by analyzing the intercultural awareness reflected in the textbook’s reading materials. The eleven steps of content analysis designed by Cohen et al. (2007) has been utilized in this research [4]. The coding system was adapted from the elements of intercultural awareness constructed by Baker (2012) [2]. ATLAS.ti 9 was used to code the text and illustrations in the textbook. Relevance sampling will be applied to code the reflected three levels of intercultural awareness in the higher vocational English textbook’s reading materials for the evaluation of Chinese cultural aphasia. As for the reliability, analysis result of the Krippendroff’s alpha equals 0.921 in the ATLAS.ti 9 which means the inter-coder agreement of this research is highly reliable. Based on the analyzing results, all the three levels of intercultural awareness are reflected in the reading materials of the representative higher vocational English textbook. However, the findings show that Chinese cultural aphasia still exist in all the three levels of intercultural awareness reflecting Chinese culture in the reading materials of the textbook.
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