Ideational Meanings in Results and Discussion Section of English Students’ Final Project Reports Viewed from SF-MDA

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate how knowledge is construed by integrating multimodal texts in English Students’ Final Project Reports, especially in the results and discussion section. Therefore, the qualitative data were obtained from the results and discussion section of English Students’ Final Project Reports published in 2022, Politeknik Negeri Bandung. In analyzing the data, Systemic Functional-Multimodality Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) was employed. The SFL framework was used in investigating verbal texts that were supported by visual texts. The visual texts were studied by applying MDA. Both frameworks were applied to find out the intersemiosis relation of verbal and visual modes. The results show that the students used tables and graphs to support their claims in the verbal texts. However, the intersemiosis of the modes is divergent. It is implied that the students were not aware yet of the function of the visual mode in their final project reports. This study can be a reference to improve students’ academic writing.