Pre-Services Students’ Perceptions Towards The Incorporation of Target Languange Culture in Teaching Reading in Elt Class

In learning a foreign language, teachers or lectures should transfer not only the linguistic items but also the cultural evidence. However, there is still a dearth in the extent of information about incorporating culture in the language classroom. Furthermore, as the students of English language department program are the next teacher generation, it is important to know their perception towards the importance of culture in language teaching. Besides, it may help them to be more realize and prepare their self for being a teacher who not only transfer the linguistic items but also the cultural items. Hence, the current study is conducted to know pre-services student’s perception towards the incorporation of target language culture in English language teaching class, especially in reading. In this research, the researcher uses qualitative descriptive to describe the result of the study. The participant of this study is 50 students of English Language Education department of Universitas Islam Negri Sunan Ampel Surabaya academic year 2016 who have already joined Intercultural communication and cultural awareness class and also microteaching class. The instrument that is used in this research are questionnaire and interview. In analyzing data, researcher classify the data then uses simple percentage to draw the result. The result shows that pre-service students’ perception toward the incorporation of target language culture in teaching reading is very positive. They perceive that incorporating target language culture in teaching reading is important, they also perceive that incorporating target language culture in teaching reading has benefit for students’ enthusiasm in learning, and they also perceive that as teacher to be-, they need to arise their cultural knowledge.