Author:
Dida Firman Hidayat
Affiliation:
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Functional grammar, procedure texts writing, genre-based approach, impediments.
Abstract:
Albeit there have been many studies conducted in respect of procedure text writing enhancement, very little of them show a proper procedure text as an example which leads students to missapplications in their writing. This study, therefore, aims to clarify an expert procedure text and also use it as a cornerstone to find students’ misapplications in their writing. The expert used in this study was taken from TOEIC examination and three different levels of secondary students’ writing as the representatives. Comparative document analysis under descriptive qualitative design was employed to obtain adequate information. Purposively, the instrument used in this study was a guideline taken from Halliday’s work regarding interpersonal, ideational, and textual metafunctions and Derewianka’s language features of a procedure text. The findings indicated that the TOEIC procedure text meets the requirements considering the transparencies of its stages and registers used. Such reflection also pro
vided another insight that in any level of students’ writing, there are still identified some impediments, i.e. absence of adverbial details, lack of appropriate vocabularies, and lack of cohesive sentence construction. In conclusion, the three students still had some difficulties related to the format, style, and register. Further study may be worth doing to concern on what pedagogical implications are beneficial to employ in maintaining students’ creativity in the writing of procedure texts under GBA approach.
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