Souryana, Yassine2024-06-062024-06-062012-06-301112-7279E 2676-1556http://ddeposit.univ-alger2.dz/handle/20.500.12387/6744Our aim is to show whether and to what extent they adhere to the “visual turn” that is taking place , transforming the current culture into a visual one. As a theoretical framework, we will adopt Social Semiotic Theory that accounts for visual design and provides a toolkit that can deal with multimodality. Specifically, we will look at the different modes of representation to understand multimodal development in three secondary textbooks: Think it Over (1989), Comet (2001), and New Prospects (2006)enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Stateshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/Visual turnMultimodal DesignEFLTextbooksArticle