CONCEPT: Community Concern for English Pedagogy and Teaching Vol. 8, No. 1, January-June, 2022 46 Socio-cultural analysis on a textbook Grow with English for students of elementary schools Yuli Yana Wati 1 , Ikariya Sugesti 2 , Hanif Nurcholish Adiantika 3 English Department Education, Teaching and Training Education Faculty, Universitas Muhammadiyah Cirebon, Cirebon, Indonesia 123 Corresponding Author Email: anna.yulia97@gmail.com Abstract Indonesian culture is often connected with the reality of life and it appears on textbook Grow with English. This research aims to analyze the representation of Indonesian culture on Grow with English textbook for third grade of elementary school. The problems of the research are the teacher only focuses on theory or language itself, without recognizing another aspect inside the textbook that is socio-cultural aspect. Students have difficultly to know Indonesian culture that appears on the English textbook. This research was descriptive qualitative by which the researcher interprets of Indonesian culture in the data of word and description from picture. The findings showed that there were various illustrations that indicated Indonesian culture, the characters’ name indicated of origin, traditional attribute that indicated of religion, traditional home living, traditional food, traditional toys and game, the last about physical appearance of the character and it is indicated f sociocultural aspect . Furthermore, for teachers who are interested in doing similar research, this research will be reference, it is appropriate English textbook for elementary school and as contribution to comprehend that Indonesian culture appears on Grow with English textbook and recommended to use it continually. Keywords: socio-cultural; textbook; students of elementary school INTRODUCTION In the learning process, most teachers use various types of media to support the students’ understanding of theory. Teaching a language as a means of intercultural communication and introducing those learning a language to the spiritual inheritance of the countries and people has had a great significance in modern society where we can observe the broadening and strengthening of the economic and cultural links between people. Choosing students of elementary school as a subject is motivated by psychological and personal peculiarities of this age that allow them to learn foreign languages effectively and develop communication skills. One of the media used commonly by the teachers to support the teaching and learning process in the school or institution is English textbook. The most media that is supported in the teaching process in the school or institution is a textbook.