An Analysis of Multimodal Text in EFL Textbook of Secondary School in Indonesia in Assisting Students’ Text Understanding

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.095How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ideational function, multimodality, visual grammar design

Abstract

The existence of images in the textbook has brought many benefits to the EFL Classroom. The research on multimodality in EFL textbooks has been largely conducted. However, there is a lack of research that focuses on the textbook’s verbal and visual elements. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the aspects of verbal and visual elements in the textbook and analyze the visual element’s role in understanding the verbal component. The data of multimodal elements found is taken from the textbook Pathway to English verbal and visual data and the textbook user. The selected data are taken from the text presented along with the images. The qualitative method of the research proposed by Miles and Huberman was involved in this study. The multimodal framework, a combination of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistic and Kress and Van Leeuwen’s Grammar Visual Design, identifies the multimodal elements that appear in the textbook and analyze whether the images presented help the learner in understanding the text. This study reveals the ideational functions of the verbal elements and three patterns of visual elements. The visual elements presented also give pedagogical benefits to students in understanding the text. However, the textbook analysis of the visual image and the teacher and students’ responses show that there should be an improvement in the visual elements’ color and size.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Weny Fitriana
AU  - Yanty Wirza
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - An Analysis of Multimodal Text in EFL Textbook of Secondary School in Indonesia in Assisting Students’ Text Understanding
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 627
EP  - 632
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.095
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.095
ID  - Fitriana2021
ER  -