This study is projected to present an analysis of a series of teaching-learning processes applying multimodal pedagogy to a topic based text-based teaching of English in Indonesia. The motivation is because today technology of communication is more complex and provides multimodal network that the communication among people appears not only in verbal communication but also applies multimodal, in which it involves verbal, images, graphics, cyber links, and other semiotic resources. On the other hand mono-modal pedagogy just include only one mode of meaning-making, usually verbal. That is why, the language teaching should not be developed traditionally, mono-modal fashions; and but it should be able to meet appropriate needs and necessities of the learners, approaches to teaching multimodal texts in multimodal fashions needs to be specifically developed. Based on the result, some pedagogic principles and relevant models of teaching are then suggested to be applied in the Teaching of English as a foreign language in Indonesia context.
Keywords: multimodal pedagogy, topic based text-based teaching, semantic resource
