Title: EXPLORING STUDENTS‟ DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SECONDYEAR STUDENTS OF MA AN-NUR KOTA CIREBON(A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR PERSPECTIVE)
Abstract: Rina Astuti. 14121310347: Exploring Students‟ Descriptive Text at Second Year
Students of MA An-Nur Kota Cirebon (A Systemic Functional Grammar
Perspective)
In the process of learning language, there are four skills that must be
mastered by the learning. It is including reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Writing is one of the important skills in language learning and teaching to
accelerate the process receiving and comprehending knowledge or information.
Writing is one of difficult thing that mostly students feel. It is usually happen in
senior high school students, especially for students at MA An-Nur Kota Cirebon.
The second year students at MA An-Nur Kota Cirebon still confuse in writing and
producing a good and coherent text. Based on the phenomenon, this research aims
s to find out the text features realized in the students‟ descriptive text represented
the Ideational Metafunction used Transitivity of Functional Grammar developed
by Halliday (1994).
The analysis process in this research is constructed based on Transitivity of
Functional Grammar developed by Halliday. The technique of collecting data of
this research is observation and documentation. This research used descriptive
qualitative method to analyzing the data contains of students‟ descriptive texts.
The data used 10 students‟ text to be analyzed that chosen randomly.
This result of this research shows that the students aware about text features.
The students able to apply the schematic structure of the Descriptive text because
they can put the identification and description of text correctly. Dealing with the
linguistic features, the students can use the appropriate tense and adjective in their
text. It can be seen from the text they produced that they applied both of generic
structure and linguistic feature of the text.
The results of the represented of transitivity in ideational metafunction in
the texts shows in three types of percentag: the percentage of the most prominent
participants; the percentage of the use of process types; and the percentage of the
use of circumstances. There are 187 participants mentioned in the texts and there
are three most dominant participants: Carrier (33.69%), Attribute (28.88%) and
6.95% for each Token and Value. In the term of process types, there are three
process types which dominate the clause in the texts: Relational process (71.70%),
Material process (15.09%) and Mental process (8.49%). The last, in the term of
circumstance, the three types of circumstances are dominating in the texts:
Circumstance of Time (37.5%), Circumstance of Place (37.5%) and Circumstance
of Manner (20%).
Keywords: Descriptive text, Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), Schematic
Structures, Linguistic Features, Transitivity
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-07-28
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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