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Multimodal Discourse Analysis on Visual Grammar of Procedure Texts in an Indonesian EFL Textbook
Textbook is all book used in the teaching and learning process, including working
book, modules, and reference book. It means that textbook plays the important
roles in English teaching learning. Beside, textbooks are the instruments that help
both of teachers and learners in process of English language learning. Some of
learning material cannot be taught without textbook. The textbook should be
valued on the visual grammar. The researcher aimed to analyze the kinds of visual
grammar and how the visual grammar are represented in an Indonesian EFL
textbook which is used by the third graders of Indonesian junior high school.
This study used descriptive qualitative approach with social semiotic analysis.
The researcher analyzed the types of visual grammar and how the visual grammar
represented in 4 Procedure Texts in an Indonesian EFL Textbook for the third
graders in junior high school by using checklist. The checklist was constructed by
the researcher to categorize the data. The theory of visual grammar by Gunther
Kress and Theo van Leeuwen was adapted to develop the checklist. In collecting
the data, first, the researcher downloads some textbook and selects it. Second,
reads the reading passages chapter by chapter and categorized the textbook into
representational, interactional and compositional meaning. Finally, the researcher
prepares the data to be analysis.
The researcher found that the EFL Textbook showed three types of visual
grammar namely representational meaning, interactional meaning and
compositional meaning. Furthermore, the representational meaning is generally
represented by narrative process (Action process) and conceptual process
(classificational process). The interactional meaning is represented by contact,
social distance and attitude. The compositional meaning is usually represented by
information value, framing and salience.
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