| dc.description.abstract | This study examined what multicultural values are represented in vocational
high school English textbook for Grade 10th published by the Ministry of Education
and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia by using visual semiotics of Roland Barthes.
The study was expected to give enlightenment towards the discussion of multicultural
values needed in English teaching and learning process for the students, the teachers,
and the next researchers in the future.
The study analysed visual images that provide information about multicultural
values in vocational high school EFL textbooks by using visual semiotics of Roland
Barthes that has two layers in visual semiotics’ layering of meaning: denotation and
connotation. This study used both layer to analyze the multicultural values represented
in the images provided in the EFL textbook used in vocational high school, in order to
reveal what and how the image represents the ideas and values in it. The main reason
for analysing the multicultural values in the textbook is because images tend to provide
rich and accurate information about the cultural values.
The findings show that there are four categories of multicultural values
represented in the EFL textbook through 15 images out of 81 images. Those
multicultural values are appreciating other people’s cultural products (AOPCP),
appreciating women’s equal rights (AWER), appreciating other people’s perspectives
(AOPP), and respecting other people’s traditions (ROPT). Apart from the
representation of multicultural values, the images provided in the EFL textbook also
portrays socio-cultural phenomena in Indonesia and interpret real-life conditions of
school communities in Indonesia that based on population’s heterogeneity. In which
gives a chance for the students to enhance their Intercultural Communication
Competence (ICC) by starting to appreciate cultural diversity and to accept racial and
religious tolerance around them. Other than that, the active role from English teachers
to provide various additional activities related to the pictures given in the textbook,
such as role-play, case studies, and problem solving are important in enhancing
students multicultural awareness and improving their ICC. | en_US |
