Introduction: The issue of the representation of culture in ELT textbooks has always been a controversy among linguists around the world. Although researchers have attempted to raise questions about how culture is represented in such textbooks, their studies are primarily limited to investigating the depth of representation of culture in ELT textbooks in countries other than Vietnam, where culture due attention has not been given in English education textbooks (Nguyen, 2011). This study investigates both the content and breadth of foreign culture framing in ELT textbooks by examining foreign culture perspectives represented in ELT textbooks for first-year non-major students in Vietnam. What is culture? Culture is one of the most difficult concepts in the humanities and social sciences (Hall, 1997). In recent years there has been much controversy over definitions of culture among cultural scholars. More traditionally, culture is said to be the sum of great ideas, as represented in classic works of literature, painting, music and philosophy: “high culture”. In a more modern approach, culture is seen as the widely distributed forms of popular music, publishing, art, design and literature, or the leisure and entertainment activities that describe the daily life activities of the majority of people, defined “mass culture” or “popular culture”. Soraya and Saeed (2012) define the term “culture” as the common knowledge system of a group of people. It includes a variety of components such as values, beliefs, attitudes, notions of appropriate behavior, status, role expectations, and worldview (notions of time, space, and cosmology). It also includes material objects and knowledge about... middle of paper... (2001) suggests placing in the central circle those who are fluent in English internationally and who use English for intercultural communication, without mentioning that they are native or non-native. Modiano's model is of great value because the global use of the English language requires global cultural awareness rather than focusing only on the culture of the target language, which is only American or British. It is widely accepted that the English language has now acquired a world language. frank and was considered “a means of intercultural communication” (Seidlhofer, 2003, p.9). This is because the number of non-native English speakers already exceeds the number of native speakers. Although these interchangeable terms define EIL attitudes, expectations, and norms differently, they negotiate the authority and identity of English speakers.