JOURNAL AND ARTICLES REVIEW

TITLE :

IDENTIFYING COMPOSITIONAL INSTRUMENTS

IN A BILINGUAL PICTURE BOOK FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING

REVIEWER :

Name : Amalia Eka Brilianti

NIM : (22216251168)

Class/rombel : Intake A / Rombel A

Course : Educational Reaserch Methodologies

1. THE ARTICLE REVIEWED INFORMATION

Title Identifying Compositional Instruments In A Bilingual Picture

Book For Language Learning

Author’s Name Mufida and Ningsih

Journal’s Name A Journal On Language and Language Learning

Vol. No. and page of

Vol. 25, No. 2 and Page 596-615
Journal
Year Published 2022
Link Download http://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/LLT

2. The Explanation Of Article Review

a. Introduction
The development of language learning media in current era adds the learning
media more variety. One of the variation of language learning media is bilingual picture
 book. Bilingual Picture book is the interesting learning media for students in language
learning. Bilingual picture book as language learning media can attract the student to
learn the English foreign language easily. The student’s ability in text comparison,
metalinguistic development, and the sentence structure awareness are built by reading
bilingual picture book. According Welch (2015), the teacher and student can create the
bilingual interaction space by reading the bilingual picture book (cited by Glazer, et al,.
2017). We can concluded that the bilingual picture book commonly chosen by the
English teacher and parents due to the bilingual picture book can accommodate the
student to learn English and shape their bilingual identity easily
Based on the research conducted by Mufida and Ningsih (2022) that specifically
concerned to some difficulties and challenges in the use of bilingual picture book. In this
context, some difficulties and challenges in using the bilingual picture book, such as the
student mostly difficult to focus and concentrating the reading activities because of
picture distraction and boring story. This research proposes to examine the compositional
element of bilingual picture book as the solutions for teacher and parent in choosing the
bilingual picture book.
b. Methodology
The article using qualitative method in terms a philosophical understanding of the
research topic and analyzing the bilingual digital book. The research using the
multimodal discourse analysis theory to give more understanding how language with
different feature and structure create the similar context meaning. The data focus of this
research focused to analyze the book written by Ayunda and illustrated by Honesta
entitled Kina Makes A New Friend (Kina Punya Teman Baru) as the Indonesia and
English picture book. The story of “Kina Makes A New Friend” tells the real condition
and issues which commonly happen in children’s friendship. The unit analysis of the
picture, such as single page, page to page, and across page turn is implemented to
investigate the data.
c. Outcome and Discussions
The results of this research was obtained from the book analysis to examine the
compositional effects of bilingual picture book entitled “Kina Makes A New Friend”.
The research focus to use the compositional effects, such as layout, framing, focus, and
 information value. Most of the layout of this book is [integrated: co located] that the
verbal text is blended in visual single page. The number of layout white space of the
bilingual picture book “Kina Makes A New Friend” is 10 in percentage 38.5 %. The
layout white space reaches the highest percentage than other layout. It means, the same
white space are used by verbal and visual text in order to support the readability of
narratives in bilingual picture book. In framing elements, the research found two kinds of
framing, such as [bound] and [unbound] framing. The [unbound: contextualized]
elements is extremely dominant in “Kina Makes A New Friend” book that is 12 with the
percentage 44.4%. It refer to the visual setting is used to the story, so the student can
focus to the visual setting. For focus elements, most of the focus elements of this book
used [orthogonal: vertical] with 33% means that the composition visual picture on center
of page and the verbal above the image. For the information, most of the information text
layout on this book is [moderate] means that the information text is following the verbal
text fills on top-left, center-left, and bottom-right.
Based on the explanation of the data findings, this book “Kina Makes A New
Friend” explore the good compositional feature start from the framing, focus, layout, and
information value. The verbal text and picture become the complementary element in
every pages of the book. The picture of every page can be enjoyed without any
boundaries features. The verbal text and pictures tends to be polarized vertically that
students can be focused on the reading activities by using the bilingual picture book. The
implementation of various dimension with the high value is implemented in this book.
d. Conclusion
In conclusion, the article has successfully described the compositional features of
the Indonesia and English picture book entitled “Kina Makes A New Friend” written by
Ayunda and illustrated by Honesta. The compositional features in layout, framing, focus,
and information values is used to support the emotions of the participant and its
compositional features guide the story focus. The expectations of high level of literacy
goals can be achieved by the readers. The article gives positive input as innovation to the
educational research, especially English teaching-learning.
 e. A Critique Of The Article
Based on the literature and methodology of this article, the article has systematic
research that the theoretical framework is suitable with the research variables. The
research supports clear methodology and organized literature. This article successfully
achieve its research questions to examine the compositional element of bilingual picture
book as the solutions for teacher and parent in choosing the bilingual picture book. This
research is significantly useful for teacher and also the parents to create interesting
reading activities. Through the bilingual picture book, it can assist the teacher and parent
to convey the meaning of the text comprehensively. The weaknesses of research analysis
could be further expanded to add the finding of the constructions of verbal and visual text
and how their relations to construct the story through bilingual picture book. Moreover,
the specific reader’s competences after reading the bilingual picture book with meta-
function analysis. In order to the research result of college learner’s perceptions of
mobile-assisted in EFL reading comprehension.

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