A Semiotic Study of the Importance of some Selected Images of the Iraqi English Curricula

چکیده

This study is dealt with a semiotic analysis of some selected images of the Iraqi English curriculum. The study adopts Barthes (1977) Visual Rhetoric and Eco (2003) Decoding and Encoding theory. The Semiotic Study presents the analysis of both verbal and nonverbal messages. The major aims of this study; is to clarify the importance of the signs, symbols and hints in images and text of iraqi English curriculum and how can they serve teaching and educational operation. As well, the reason behind choosing the images of curriculum, is that because of having a great effect in teaching operation that can attract student's attention by many things such as; colors, signs and symbols. Consequently, the topic of this study can get the attention and interest of students and the result not only having new vocabularies but having moral lessons and forming sentences. Semiotic study is chosen because it is the science that the studies signs and its functions.