Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 university of kashan
2 University of Kashan, faculty of Foreign Literature and Languages, Department of Arabic Language and Literature
Abstract
In textbooks and educational texts, images play an important role and provide significant opportunities for authors of second language educational texts such as Arabic. The effectiveness of images requires familiarity with different image patterns and how to use them in educational books in order to provide a better learning environment. Therefore, in the present research, a quantitative and qualitative investigation and analysis was made of the images of second secondary Arabic books (10th to 12th grade) based on the different dimensions of Kress and Van Leeuwen's social semiotic representational meta-function, including the dimension of process, personality, and environment. Moreover, how the ontogenical process changed in the represented concept of images in accordance with the cognitive and perceptional development and knowledge of the learners was probed by the ontogenical perspective of Guo and Feng. The results showed that, according to the mental growth process and the knowledge of the learners, there is no highly suitable model in choosing pictures in the 10th to 12th grades. Examining the three dimensions of representational meta-function—proces, character, and environment—showed there was a lack of representing developmental changes from narrative to conceptual, from individual to group or part-to-whole, from cartoon to photo, and from native environments to non-native environments in the images of the three textbooks under investigation. According to this research, in the future editions, by choosing appropriate images based on the developmental and perceptual process of the learners, these textbooks will have better efficiency and will contain purposeful images to facilitate learning and delivery of content
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