A MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS: REPRESENTATIONAL MEANING OF VISUAL IMAGES IN EFL TEXTBOOK

• Main Author: Dinda Choerunisha, - (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2023-07-28.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Link Metadata
• Notes: http://repository.upi.edu/102252/7/S_ING_1907634_Title.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/102252/2/S_ING_1907634_Chapter1.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/102252/3/S_ING_1907634_Chapter2.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/102252/4/S_ING_1907634_Chapter3.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/102252/5/S_ING_1907634_Chapter4.pdf; http://repository.upi.edu/102252/6/S_ING_1907634_Chapter5.pdf
• Keywords: PE English

This study provides an account of how multimodal meanings are realized in English for Nusantara EFL textbook as a teaching and learning resource in junior high school by exploring how representational modes work together in creating meanings. This study employed a qualitative content analysis design by adopting the concept of representational meanings of images proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006). The data were collected from all the visual images in the textbook that consists of 5 chapters with a total of 318 images. The study obtained two types of analysis; visual process and visual categories. In terms of process, the analysis reveals that all of the narrative and conceptual processes are used in the textbook-except conversion process. Along with the two processes above, this study also reveals that participants of images in the textbook were dominated by the appearance of males (55%) while females (45%). Conversely, both male and female have the same proportion of social and domestic gender roles. Indonesian culture and religious norms are realized by characters in the textbook. Moreover, it is suggested that the visual images in terms of representational mode could help students to understand the text material in the textbook.