Abstract:

The concept of multiculturalism has been recognized as an important concept throughout the world in recent years. Rapid changes and developments such as technological developments and global formations that are taking place in the world make the concept of multiculturalism increasingly important.These changes make it necessary to live together for people who have a wide variety of differences . Around the world with the increasing importance of multiculturalism, it is also seen that awareness of multiculturalism is getting increase in the education system. This affected not only the whole education system but also the foreign language education. In this sense, in this study, secondary school English lesson curriculum and coursebooks were examined in terms of multicultural education. The aim of the study is to examine what extent and how the multicultural education is included in the English lesson curriculum and the coursebooks. With this aim, ‘’English Net’’ (5th-6th class), ‘’Sunshine’’ (7th class) and ‘’Upturn in English’’ (8th class) cousebooks distributed by Ministry of Education and taught in state schools have been examined. In this study the document analysis technique included in the qualitative research methods was applied for the examination of secondary school English lesson curriculum and course books. In the light of the results obtained from the findings of the research, it has been determined that, the objectives and unıts related with the multiculturalism in the secondary school English curriculum and coursebooks it’s inadequate for a nation state in which there are different populations, such as Turkey, in this sense the secondary school English curriculum and coursebooks in relation to multiculturalism are required to undergo various improvements and changes.

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