Multimodal analysis of Indonesian ELT Teaching Videos

Teaching video is media that provides information about the concept and procedures of teaching by using various modes or multimodality such as linguistic, visual, audio, gestural, spatial, and pictorial representation. Multimodality is the combination of various modes for strengthening, complementing, and expressing the meaning of an image or text expected to facilitate better learning. The aim of this qualitative research is to analyze the multimodality in Indonesian EL Teaching videos and the function of the combination of some modes in expressing the meaning for English teaching and learning in Indonesian EFL context. Using content analysis, this research collected and analyzed the possible existence of five modes of multimodality with the three metafunctions of ideational metafunction, interpersonal metafunction, and textual metafunction. The videos analyzed were Indonesian ELTeaching for grade eighth of Junior High School and grade tenth of Senior High School . The findings showed that the five modes (1) linguistic (2) visual (3) audio (4) gestural and (5) spatial of multimodality are all present in both videos. The modes are used in combination between two or more modes in a frame of Indonesian ELT Teaching Video. Moreover, this research also found the narrative process, mood structure of language expression, gaze, social distance, camera angle, and discourse arrangement. These elements are used in a frame combines with modes or multimodality and connected each other to create a meaning. From the combination of modes, it has function to present the message for the viewer of Indonesian ELT teaching videos to understand the whole content of video easier