Résumé:
The current research sheds light on analyzing the content of the Algerian secondary school
third year textbook “New Prospects”. It aims at investigating the cultural components of the
textbook in order to examine whether learners are exposed to the target culture and the mother
culture. Moreover, the study attempts to analyze the way culture is presented within the
content of “New Prospects”, the way it is classified, and more precisely whether this textbook
helps learners to raise awareness about their own culture and the target culture. It also seeks to
investigate if the content is enough to develop learners’ intercultural competence toward
learning the foreign culture and toward people of the target culture, in a way that would make
them promote positive attitudes like acceptance, appreciation empathy, and adaptability, in
this context a textbook evaluation is made in order to find answers to the research questions.
The findings reveal that “New Prospects” does contain the cultural knowledge within its
content, and learners are presented with the target and the foreign culture but in a superficial
way. Hence, “New Prospects” still lacks more aspects of culture like values, beliefs and
religion etc. Therefore, intercultural communicative competence would not be achieved
through the use of this textbook.
