Investigation of the Reinforcement and Debilitation of the Meaning in the Pictures of English Books 1 & 2 (Vision) Based on Discoursal Semantic-Semiotic Approach

This research tried to analyze the Reinforcement and Debilitation of the Meaning in English Books 1 & 2 Vision (secondary school) based on Discoursal Semantic-semiotic Approach using the description framework of Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996[2006]), to develop Halliday’s functional-systematic linguistics. There is always one problem and argument on how we can use multimodal texts in school books especially English books to facilitate transfer concepts so in this way English learning and training procedures will be improved. The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between context and pictorial texts in English books 1 & 2 (Vision) to express how to select texts accompaniment to written forms in educational English books to present comprehensible and meaningful concepts. The research method is analytical-descriptive and fieldwork. We found that Common patterns in meta-functions were not considered in the pictorial texts. There is no accompaniment and overlap between written and pictorial texts. So, the meaning transfer is conveyed defectively.English books to express how to select pictorial texts accompaniment to written forms in educational English books to present comprehensible and meaningful concepts.we came to the conclusion that the Common patterns in meta-functions were not considered in the pictorial texts. The results also showed that there is no accompaniment and overlap between written and pictorial texts. So the meaning transfer in these texts is conveyed defectively.