Pedagogical Analysis of Two Indonesian Science News Articles - A Multimodal Study

Yulizar Komarawan

2017

Abstract

Nowadays, web 2.0 helps us raise scientific literacy. It provides a space for experts to disseminate the current scientific knowledge or journalists to spread the re-contextualized scientific knowledge which is easy to be understood by non-specialized publics. Perhaps, that just raises a question: how can journalists successfully transform complicated scientific knowledge into accessible knowledge for lay audiences? This study investigates how scientific knowledge is reconstructed in Indonesian science news articles so that it is accessible for the lay audiences. Particularly, the present study focuses upon the process of recontextualization of scientific writing discussing gene. A qualitative case study was employed to achieve the goal. Particularly, this study focused upon analysing classification, formality, framing of the articles. Two multimodal texts taken from two Indonesian websites kompas.com and nationalgeographic.co.id were used as the data of the present study. The findings suggest that Indonesian news media tend to present the knowledge in weak classification, low formality and weak framing.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Komarawan Y. (2017). Pedagogical Analysis of Two Indonesian Science News Articles - A Multimodal Study.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 414-417. DOI: 10.5220/0007168304140417

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Yulizar Komarawan},
title={Pedagogical Analysis of Two Indonesian Science News Articles - A Multimodal Study},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={414-417},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007168304140417},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Pedagogical Analysis of Two Indonesian Science News Articles - A Multimodal Study
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Komarawan Y.
PY - 2017
SP - 414
EP - 417
DO - 10.5220/0007168304140417