A Content Analysis of the Cultural Content in the EFL Textbooks/Une Analyse de Contenu Du Contenu Culturel Dans Les Manuels en Anglais (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION The necessity of integrating culture teaching in FLE has been long recognized by scholars and educators, but what kinds of cultural information should be taught is still a confusing problem. In China, English is taught as a foreign language, so the most of English teaching and learning happen in class, which means teaching materials play an important role in English teaching and learning. Cunningsworth stated that "teaching materials can exert considerable influence over what teachers teach and how they do it" (Cunningsworth, 2002, P7). And on the other hand, with China's education heavily under the influence of Confucianism and Daoism, students get into the habit of depending on textbooks (Zhang, 2007, P262).