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The aim of this research was to investigate the cultural elements of the target language culture and the first language culture incorporated in the Italian language textbooks used in Croatian schools. The analysed textbooks are one of the main learning materials for Croatian students and should provide learners with bases for the development of both linguistic and cultural competences. The latter assumption is aligned with a number of researchers’ claims that students should be exposed to both target-culture elements as well as elements from their own culture (e.g. Byram 1997 ; Petravić 2010 ; Andraka 2014 ; Vickov 2016). We decided to investigate the Italian coursebooks content in terms of the presentation of the culture. Our research goal was twofold. We wanted to explore (1) the adjustment of the entire textbook series cultural content to the relevant Croatian educational documents and (2) the presence and types of the cultural elements of the target language culture and the first language culture in the textbook for the first year of learning. Using the qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection (e.g. Mužić, 1977 ; Zvonarević, 1978) we analysed the textbook series Vieni con me più and the textbook Vieni con me più 1. Our results suggest the adjustment with the chronologically relevant Croatian educational document and the lesser presence of cultural elements in comparison with non-cultural elements. |
