Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract
Name : Anna Nuriskia
Student No. : 1806202020035
Study Program : English Education
Title : A Visual Analysis of the English Textbook “Pathway to
f English 3” Used in Senior High School
Keywords: visual analysis, representational meaning, interactive meaning,
compositional meaning, and textbook analysis.
This study focused on analyzing the visual values that are contained in a textbook.
In conducting this research, descriptive qualitative approach was used. The content
analysis model was implemented. The data source was from an English textbook
published by Erlangga in 2010 named Pathway to English 3. The data were
collected through documentation procedure where the textbook was examined
repeatedly to classify the data based on Kress and Van Leuween’s (2006) visual
complementarity. From the findings, there are three results. First, concerning to the
representational meaning, the majority of participants employed in the textbook is
human participant (53.4%). Meanwhile, the non-human participants that are mostly
used is object participants. Second, from the interactive meaning, the medium shot
(69.5%) and oblique perspective (54.9%) are used in more in the textbook. And the
whole pictures in the book as unsaturated pictures (100%). Additionally, 81.7% of
the images have background. Last, from the compositional meaning, it was found
that the images are more presented to be informative (38.6%) rather than illustrative
(34.8%) and decorative (26.6%). Furthermore, the dominant position of the images
is top/bottom position (60.7%). In conclusion, the pictures from the textbooks can
be said to serve the pedagogical purposes in assisting students to do the tasks that
follow the pictures. It is also suggested that language textbook can be provided in
full saturated images to let students experience the real-life pictures.

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