Teachers’ Perception towards the Use of Multimodality in Teaching Reading

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.286How to use a DOI?

Keywords

multimodality; news item text; video

Abstract

Twenty first-century education paradigm suggests foreign language teacher becomes creative in presenting and delivering lesson to the students. Many studies indicated that multimodality is one strategy that can be used to teach reading. This study aimed to find out teachers’ perception towards the use of multimodality in teaching reading news item text in their classroom, this study conducted in three senior high schools in Riau Province, prioritize those of which have a good facility to support this study. This study used qualitative methodology to collect the data. For the research instrument, the researcher took up questionnaire in G-form and distributed it to three English teachers as respondents. The result of this study indicated that teachers have positive attitudes toward the use of multimodality in teaching. They also integrated multimodality as a useful tool of teaching in different terminologies and ways. With the facilities available in the school, they believe that teaching young learners need creativity. It is the responsibility of school and teachers to encourage student’s motivation, promote students individual learning needs and make them familiar with the various way of learning.

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© 2019, 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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