Investigating the cultural and literary content in english for Iraq secondary level : a pedagogical study

الملخص EN

The present study is devoted to analyzing the cultural and literary content in" English for Iraq" textbooks for the sixth preparatory stage in Iraq.

The study consists of five sections: the preliminaries (which present the essentials of the study), the survey of related literature (which explains the theoretical foundations on which the study is built, the methodology ( which presents the practical investigation), the data analysis (which analyzes the contents in the student's and activity books), and finally the main conclusions, some suggestions for further studies and recommendations.

Several conclusions have been arrived at, the most important of them that various cultural aspects can be found through the researched textbooks that are: names, addressing people, food, sports, institution, politeness, countries, cities, oceans, islands, aspects of modern culture, family members, markets, fabrics, animals, drinks, transportation, Male/Female Presence, clothes, arts, meals, colors, education, familiar words, crockery, entertainments, coins, languages, archeological sites, restaurants, poets, press, crops, climate and industries