What Do the Pictures Say in a Science Textbook?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.025How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ideational meaning, multimodal analysis, reading images, science, systemic functional grammar, textbook

Abstract

Many studies have demonstrated that images are essential in learning science to help the learners understand abstract scientific concepts. This research aims to investigate the use of images in a science textbook, by looking at the ideational meaning of the images and the captions accompanying them. By doing multimodal analysis, the research focuses on identifying the types of images and types of processes used in the images to identify the ideational meaning. The data for this research were taken from the first six chapters of a chemistry textbook. The theory of reading images (Kress & Van Leeuwen, 2006) and Systemic Functional Grammar (Halliday, 1994) were used to analyse the visual and verbal modes in the textbook. The result of the analysis shows that ideationally, in terms of types of images, the textbook dominantly used realistic images, the one which represents reality in human viewpoint. In terms of types of processes, analytical images were dominantly used in the textbook. Ideationally, the visual and the verbal modes in the textbook complement each other to strengthen the meaning of the scientific concept delivered to the learners.

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© 2020, 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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AU  - Dhea Zakia Millah Nur’graha
AU  - Budi Hermawan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/17
TI  - What Do the Pictures Say in a Science Textbook?
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 164
EP  - 171
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.025
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