AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE FEATURES OF STUDENTS’ WRITING ON RECOUNT TEXT

Avida, Dwi Jasmine (2020) AN ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE FEATURES OF STUDENTS’ WRITING ON RECOUNT TEXT. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Pancasakti Tegal.

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Abstract

Keywords: Language Features, Recount Text, Writing Assignment. There are some genres text in English language teaching that needed to be mastered by the senior high school students, one of the text is recount text. Recount text has its own social function and language features which should be mastered by students when they are going to write the text. Writing assignment is one of the ways to assess the students’ comprehension in a genre text, the students were instructed to write their own genre text with suitable language features. Therefore, it is important to analyze the students writing assignment to see whether the students have already understanding the language features of recount text. The purposes of this research are to analyze the language features of recount text and whether it has fulfilled the criteria or not This study uses a qualitative descriptive analysis. The researcher took five assignments of recount text for tenth grade high school students as samples for analysis. Researchers collect data, analyze, create code containing elements of language features, calculate and report findings data. Researchers focus on analyzing written text assignments. The data are then reported into a systematic design to provide meaningful descriptions which are compiled into table. Based on the analysis, the researcher found the result shows that there were only three texts of recount texts assignment which has fulfilled the criteria of language features of recount text, they are RT-1, RT-2 and RT-3. The rest of the text which is RT-4 and RT-5 were not fulfilled the criteria of recount text because of the absent of circumstance of time and the use of present tenses. Thus, the result from those texts showed the indication of the all texts were the students’ assignments which have already mastered the language features and which have not. From the result of the study showed that the language features of the text showed the ability of the students comprehend the genre text material and it is also beneficial to teacher to see the students’ performance in writing.

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